Pycharm Remote Dev using SFTP with Yubi Key authentication

Question

I have PyCharm Pro. I am trying to do remote development on a server. I have read the following Jetbrains tutorials:

Deploying Applications

Remote Development on Raspberry Pi

as well as the very helpful tutorial:

Remote debugging with pycharm the missing tutorial

While I seem to be able to set everything up, authentication fails when I try to connect to the remote server using the 'SFTP' protocol. I can make an SSH and SFTP connection from the CLI in a terminal so I know the ssh configuration settings are correct. However, in my case authentication requires ssh and having a Yubi key connected to my laptop. Does that make a difference?

Has anyone had a similar issue? If so, how did you resolve it?

Answer 1

On MacOS the challenge is where the IDE is getting it's ssh socket agent. To make this work in my case I have to launch the PyCharm Pro IDE from a terminal.

Go to '/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/MacOS' directory and launch with './pycharm'