nautilus "cannot display directory, change viewer" when opening locations

Binary package hint: nautilus

This seems to apply to remote locations.

if the password prompt, for example for a sftp:// connection in nautilus, is different from the usual "Password:" prompt, then Nautilus refuses to open the location.

This was tested on machines that have a custom prompt provided by RSA's SecurID products; the exact prompt is "Enter PASSCODE:", on machines that do not enable SecurID authentication on SSH, the behaviour doesn't happen.

sftp on the command line can open the locations fine, but does show the custom "Enter PASSCODE: " prompt.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 13 17:15:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon fglrx
Package: nautilus 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/mtrudel
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux icarus 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux