Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:16:14 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh2 login with public key - not working Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0708301016140.22678@hymn08.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46D6F8D8.7000901@crackmonkey.us>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Laszlo Nagy wrote: >> Well, I have other users using public keys for logging in so the sshd config >> must be correct. >> This is the only user that doesn't work. I can login by typing in the >> password but I need to login automatically. >> >> Best, >> >> Laszlo > > Well, then perhaps the user is wrongly configured. IIRC, you need to have the > file ~/.ssh/authorized_users with your public key in it, so sshd can match it > to the private key when you log in. > > If the file's there on the server, perhaps the client end is misconfigured. > Apparently there's no way to feed the key to SSH via command line, you have to > be using some sort of key agent. Which is highly annoying IMO, but then you can > always use PuTTY instead of ssh. > > HtH, > Adam J Richardson Try using ssh -vv to root-cause the issue. ssh's pretty good about telling you what's wrong with a config. -Garrett
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