Re: SSH RSA Authentication

[Dietmar Goldbeck <dietmar.goldbeck@acm.org>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:27:35AM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
> After I created a key with 'ssh-keygen -t dsa -N ""' and copied it to
> the remote server with 'ssh-copy-id', I connected to the server. And
> again, for no surprise, I got password prompt. This is what I got with
> 'ssh -v':
> 
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: waiting for SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: newkeys: mode 0
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: done: ssh_kex2.
> debug1: send SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST
> debug1: service_accept: ssh-userauth
> debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/ekhowl/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/ekhowl/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/ekhowl/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/ekhowl/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: next auth method to try is password
> 

It looks like your public key wasn't use. ssh-copy-id puts it into
~/.ssh/authorized_keys Some older openSSH versions and maybe SSH.com
software checks in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for rsa keys and in
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 for SSH protocol 2 keys
                      ^ 
  Ciao
    Dietmar

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