Re: ssh not working

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:41:22PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box.  I just upgraded
> to Woody and have tried again.  I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box
> with ssh.  I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub
> files in .ssh on the Debian system.  I logged in to the RedHat system
> and placed the key in the .ssh/authorized_keys.  When I attempt to ssh
> to that system, it always asks me for a password.  Is there a log
> somewhere that might tell me what is failing?

Try adding more -v options to ssh. One usual problem is having insecure
permissions on files in ~/.ssh.

> In going the other way, I get "Secure connection to <server> refused".

Is the server even running? Again, try with more -v options.

> This thing is too secure.  It's unusable..

Works for me everywhere.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]