From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 21 0:58:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DB537B6AC; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mppsystems.com) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA18075; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 02:53:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 02:53:23 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh to freefall broken Message-ID: <20000421025323.A18027@mppsystems.com> References: <200004210005.RAA99568@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004210005.RAA99568@bubba.whistle.com>; from archie@whistle.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:05:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:05:11PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > > $ ssh archie@freefall.freebsd.org > > > Warning: Server lies about size of server host key: actual size is 1023 bits vs. announced 1024. > > > Warning: This may be due to an old implementation of ssh. > > > Warning: identity keysize mismatch: actual 1023, announced 1024 > > > Agent admitted failure to authenticate using the key. > > > Authentication agent failed to decrypt challenge. > > > Enter passphrase for RSA key 'archie@bubba.whistle.com': Are you still being asked for your passphrase? I noticed a couple of days ago that ssh to freefall wanted my passphrase, but I didn't need it yesterday or today. Sunspots? Full moon? Even before OpenSSH, I've had this problem in the past. Sometimes it seemed to be due to reverse DNS lookups not resolving correctly (my ISP wasn't always responding to reverse DNS lookups correctly). -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message