ssh version 3.4p1-1and RSA authentification

[Fabrice Yerly <fabrice.yerly@epfl.ch>]

Dear Debian users,

I've got problems with the new version of ssh and sshd.

My cluster originally installed on potato 2.2r6 needed some upgrade of ssh.

I installed ssh version 3.4p1.

Because the host keys had changed, I proceeded like this:

rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts

ssh node1
...
ssh node N

cp ~/.ssh/known_hosts /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

The file /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv did not change, beacuse the nodes names are 
the same.

I restarted /etc/init.d/ssh

It still ask for passwords...

I changed options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, tried again. No change... 

Could anybody help me?

Thanks in advance

Fabrice

Here is my current etc/ssh/sshd_config file:
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# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd(8) manpage for defails

# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 22
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Protocol 2
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#Privilege Separation is turned on for security
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

# ...but breaks Pam auth via kbdint, so we have to turn it off
# Use PAM authentication via keyboard-interactive so PAM modules can
# properly interface with the user (off due to PrivSep)
PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no
# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768

# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 600
PermitRootLogin yes
StrictModes yes

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile     %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

# rhosts authentication should not be used
RhostsAuthentication no 
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
IgnoreRhosts no 
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
RhostsRSAAuthentication yes 
# similar for protocol version 2
HostbasedAuthentication yes 
# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes

# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Uncomment to disable s/key passwords 
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication yes


# To change Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#AFSTokenPassing no
#KerberosTicketCleanup no

# Kerberos TGT Passing does only work with the AFS kaserver
#KerberosTgtPassing yes

X11Forwarding yes 
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
#PrintLastLog no
KeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no

#MaxStartups 10:30:60
#Banner /etc/issue.net
#ReverseMappingCheck yes

Subsystem       sftp    /usr/lib/sftp-server
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Here is the ssh_config file
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#       $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.15 2002/06/20 20:03:34 stevesk Exp $

# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file.  See
# ssh_config(5) for more information.  This file provides defaults for
# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files
# or on the command line.

# Configuration data is parsed as follows:
#  1. command line options
#  2. user-specific file
#  3. system-wide file
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.

# Site-wide defaults for various options

# Host *
#   ForwardAgent no
#   ForwardX11 no
#   RhostsAuthentication no
#   RhostsRSAAuthentication no
   RSAAuthentication yes
#   PasswordAuthentication yes
#   BatchMode no
#   CheckHostIP yes
#   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
   Port 22
   Protocol 2,1
#   Cipher 3des
#   Ciphers 
aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc
#   EscapeChar ~
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