Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

[Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Dan Purgert:
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an
>> rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the
>> client. Which is a bit cheeky.
> 
>> You may need a key created with a stronger method, such as ecdsa or
>> ed25519.
> 
> Could even be as simple as he sent a /different/ key across (e.g. he
> sent "home-key.pub", which corresponds to "home-key_rsa" rather than
> "id_rsa").
> 
No. I wrote that I /checked/ the public key copied to the server after
having copied it to the server's ~/.ssh directory. I edited it with a
text editor and compared it with the one I have in local ~/.ssh

Cheers,

Stephan