From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 03:27:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D2016A420 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:27:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidbryce@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5311C43D45 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:27:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from davidbryce@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCA6D33B33 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:27:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from web2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.211]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:27:37 -0500 Received: by web2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id D9C1210879; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1138850846.21966.253343832@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: ezlSYvZlfaXsP9npZoJvBjTsa6Z3MMKvWzLj5UHLOCFy 1138850846 From: "david bryce" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.73; T1.15; A1.64; B3.05; Q3.03) References: <1138676399.30955.253148220@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060131094135.GA2042@flame.pc> <1138836616.370.253326484@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060201234837.GA57878@flame.pc> <1138840074.5777.253333547@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20060202003829.GA44801@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060202003829.GA44801@flame.pc> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:27:26 +1100 Subject: Re: SSH with Public Key Authentication (Was: Re: Attention: Giorgos Keramidas (Was: CVS Import Permissions)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:27:41 -0000 On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 02:38:29 +0200, "Giorgos Keramidas" said: > On 2006-02-02 11:27, david bryce wrote: > >On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 01:48:37 +0200, "Giorgos Keramidas" > >>> I have tried using SSH in the past, and got stuck setting up the > >>> public key login (that's why we're using pserver). > >>> > >>> I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get SSH going again. I can > >>> login with SSH from the windows machine using Putty, but only when > >>> I use password authentication. In order to use cvs with ssh (using > >>> the plink program in Putty), we must use public key authentication. > >> > >> Unfortunately, I can't help with the Windows side. I'm only using UNIX > >> machines as clients, so Putty is something new to me :-( > >> > >> Perhaps someone else on freebsd-questions can help with Putty? > > > > What about on the freebsd server side? Are there any logfiles I can > > look at on the server? Thanks! > > /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/messages are the ones I'd look at. But I > didn't notice anything interesting in the auth.log snippet you posted. > Thanks, Giorgos! /var/log/messages didn't have anything in it either. You'd think there'd be a way to force sshd to write to the log why it rejected a private key. Thank you! Regards. DB -- david bryce davidbryce@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are