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Re: a replacement for ssh packages in Jessie?



Quoting Paul E Condon (pecondon@mesanetworks.net):
> I agree with your reasoning, But I am having a problem on which I need help:
> 
> I have three computers, Big, Dl2, and Gq. Big is the computer at which I sit
> when I reading this list and other user-type activities. The other two I use
> servers that I can't do on Big. I use ssh to log into them to maintain their
> software, and to adjust their service configuration. They are all running
> Jessie, fully up to date. Earlier, only Big and Gq were running and Dl2 was
> sitting idle. I installed Jessie on Dl2 after the release of Jessie. All three
> have both openssh-client and openssh-server installed.
> 
> I go into this seeming unnecessary detail because the behavior ot ssh
> in this environment is very strange:
> 
> Sitting at Big, logged in as user pec, I can:
> 
> connect to pec@gq without giving any password 
> connect to root@gq also without a password
> connect to pec@dl2 also without a password
> But I CANNOT connect to root@dl2. When I try I'm asked to type in password
>   and when I type it in I get a response "denied, please try again"
> I know the root password to Dl2 and the password for the ssh key that
> I generated for /root/.ssh/id-rsa , and I carefully contrived to make it
> the same as system password to that of system user 'root'.

What do you mean by "password for the ssh key"? If you mean you set a
*passphrase*, I don't think you want one.

Also, have you allowed yourself to login as root (to make the initial
key transfer)?

> Also, ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to be working. But I've never used it before
> this episode, so maybe on this I'm misreading the man page.

"Not working" is no help. If you use
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <username>@<remotehost>
what does it say, and does any file in .ssh/ get modified at
remotehost?

Cheers,
David.


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