Re: SSH RSA Authentication
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:20:20AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> I am trying to use RSA authentication between different machines, but
> I'm running into trouble between machines running different versions of
> ssh.
>
> Machine A is running unstable with OpenSSH 3.0.2p1, and it is trying to
> connect to machine B running stable, with a compiled from source ssh,
> version 3.2.3p1.
>
> 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. I
> notice that B's more recent ssh-keygen insists I use the -t flag to
> specificy key type, so I then generate another key on machine A with
> 'ssh-keygen -t rsa', creating id_rsa and id_rsa.pub, and proceed to copy
> id_rsa.pub to Machine B's authorized_keys file. Still no luck, same
> regular password prompt.
>
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 would guess that you are connecting with ssh protocol 1 to a server
which has protocol 1 disabled.
Try generating new keys for protocol 2 with "ssh-keygen -d",
copy them with "ssh-copy-id" and try again.
If it fails, please run ssh with -v and provide the output.
Ciao
Dietmar
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