Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 07:16:00 +0530 From: =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IOCktuClgeCkleCljeCksg==?= Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys Message-ID: <20081101014600.GA37453@chateau.d.lf> In-Reply-To: <200810311652.38230.af300wsm@gmail.com> References: <200810311652.38230.af300wsm@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] In <200810311652.38230.af300wsm@gmail.com>, Andrew Falanga wrote: >Hi, > >My father recently setup a new 7.0-Release system for some web development. I >use ssh to login remotely. I've normally not had any trouble configuring >authentication through public key encryption using ssh-keygen and such. I >have for myself a id_rsa.pub and an id_rsa key pair that I use for this >purpose. > >Normally, I just copy, via scp, the file id_rsa.pub to my >~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote host and the next time I attempt a >login all is well. That is, I don't have to enter my password. However, on >my Dad's new machine, this isn't the case. I still have to enter the >password. > >Now, I've looked through his /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and nothing in there >looks odd, or different, from other remote hosts I do this on. So, I'm >embedding a copy/paste of an ssh login session on my father's host >using -v -v to ssh: > >[/usr/home/andy/MCH] >-> ssh -v -v malumgat [...] >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive >debug1: Next authentication method: publickey >debug1: Trying private key: /home/andy/.ssh/identity >debug1: Offering public key: /home/andy/.ssh/id_rsa >debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply >debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive It seems OpenSSH (on your dad's box) hasn't recognized your private key, so how about checking permissions of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh on his box. Or how about enabling verbose logging on his box, using 'LogLevel' parameter in sshd_config. HTH Ashish Shukla -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkLtNcACgkQHy+EEHYuXnTAfwCgh975KgoRa22DXvtP8uZ/A6mi Dn0An03pUMCw41FfdcPebh3uN4/IJbuu =eTz5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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