Re: passwordless ssh login not working: BUG?
It seems this thread made its way onto usenet, and I reproduce the
text of an email exchange that resulted:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:37:21PM +1100, (somebody) wrote:
> > Hi Pigeon,
> >
> > I just read your usenet thread
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20030208053009%246b20%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=10&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522debug1%2522%2B%2522try%2Bpubkey:%2522%2B%2522.ssh/id_dsa%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D20030208053009%25246b20%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D10
> >
> > I had the _exact_ same problem as you. After reading the thread and
> > doing the same things I have it working as well. If you wouldn't have
> > posted this message, I would not have it working at all.
> >
> > You should document it perhaps? There would be many people out there who
> > would appreciate it. It's certainly a problem with ssh-keygen / sshd not
> > allowing the keys to be terminated with user@hostname, but allowing a
> > non-existing file.
> >
> > Thanks a lot
>
Pigeon wrote:
>
> So it got onto usenet? Wow, I had no idea. It was on the debian-user
> list (debian-user@lists.debian.org) that I posed the question
> originally.
>
> I'm glad you found it useful!
>
> There's not much point in me documenting it as I don't have a website
> on which to publish the documentation. However, there are various
> people on debian-user who maintain FAQs and lists of helpful hints
> etc, so I shall pass the suggestion on. (Having removed your personal
> details, of course.)
>
> According to Vineet, who was my debian-user mentor on this, the
> termination of the key is supposed to be a comment, so it shouldn't
> make any difference whether it's an address or a nonexistent file. The
> fact that this is not the case on your system as well as mine suggests
> to me that I should also file a bug against sshd.
I am reluctant to file bugs in case I end up wasting the developers'
time over something which is actually my brain not working or a
peculiarity of my setup. Since there are evidently other people having
the same problem, does the list feel I should go ahead?
And are any FAQ-writers interested in (somebody)'s suggestion?
Pigeon
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