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Re: SSH RSA Authentication



Hi there,

SSH.com and OpenSSH use completely different public key
formats.

Take a look at http://www.ssh.com/faq/index.cfm?id=1243
for public key interop

*notes to self that this needs to be in the Secure Shell
FAQ as well*

-Anne

This one time, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
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> Dietmar Goldbeck <dietmar.goldbeck@acm.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:20:20AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> >> On machine A, I run ssh-keygen, and generate an identity and
> >> identity.pub.  I copy identity.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on Machine
> >> B, but it still prompts for the system password, not my keyphrase.
> > 
> > It is very difficult to help you without error messages, since there
> > shouldn't be a problem.  openssh 3.0.2 and 3.2.3 play perfectly well
> > with each other.
> 
> I'm having similar problem, only difference being different SSH
> softwares between two systems. My end has OpenSSH 3.4:
> 
>     OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-0.0woody1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0
> 
> And the other system has:
> 
>     ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1 (non-commercial version)
> 
> I'm actually quite ignorant with SSH Communications Security Corp's SSH,
> so could someone guide me a bit? I tried generating RSA key with
> 'ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ""' and copying it to this remote server to
> directory ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. But then I noticed, that the remoted
> SSH uses ~/.ssh2 and I tried to look up the FILES section of SSH2(1),
> for no avail. 
> 
> > Try generating new keys for protocol 2 with "ssh-keygen -d",
> > copy them with "ssh-copy-id" and try again.
> 
> What does option '-d' for ssh-keygen do? My ssh-keygen doesn't even know
> it; or at least '--help' doesn't show it...
> 
> - -- 
> Jussi Ekholm  --  ekhowl@goa-head.org  --  http://erppimaa.ihku.org/
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