From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HtiD1-0000Fo-Mf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 10:48:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4VAlaKO024130; Thu, 31 May 2007 10:47:36 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4VAhLJA019275 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 10:43:21 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so251778pyb for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:43:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Trynd+AcfnJ+frUf7G68w7tbx4o1y3sgFCVUP9KBREvea5dQxiR0FpwvmXS1YDHvbjVxI+LZa3K5wSPlV4MQp2tAFfWrlZcw7m9btmX9l38CpbT4kPbAWJ9/uStxP4bVWZVww0IFrFFp6LbqJdEy7Fjm68DDHXMfGGA4ed0nJL4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=P2mRaUAo3HdVLUJP4ttWzi/yn98Q+dT7SwBgPI8bA3KFGMJfd9I6zbMOG1M8FH3z/LDYMBtfo4JBgeoXE6JHPTxPOvxEddPQ2x77ys6Ahu24hmcMHWS3olY/vvX7oJt4G6aHEbgB1l2vTsUWglKKS2zGCS4SyK2lvUCPYggGTho= Received: by 10.65.54.9 with SMTP id g9mr749231qbk.1180608200573; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.133.184.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f4sm1568139nfh.2007.05.31.03.43.19; Thu, 31 May 2007 03:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705302058.00119.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705301742.35974.faccenda@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200705301742.35974.faccenda@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2508753.cPyCnvxbyj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705311142.58519.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5e6cb30f-8791-4c40-879a-e6b1b03f90d7 X-Archives-Hash: fcb7453e6b9e5bfafed3fcd1b6f49146 --nextPart2508753.cPyCnvxbyj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:42, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:57, Mick wrote: > > I find it confusing. First of all I do not have a id_rsa. > > it tries the default keys (id_rsa or id_dsa), if exists.=20 id_rsa does not exist in my local /home/michael/.ssh/ only id_dsa is there = and=20 the public key that I have saved in /home/mic/.ssh/authorized_keys on the=20 server is my corresponding id_dsa.pub. > if you don't want=20 > it to try it, you can use the -i parameter to ssh pointing to your private > key (ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa @), Trying with the -i option also fails: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D $ ssh -v -p 22 -i /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa mick@ [snip] debug1: Found key in /home/michael/.ssh/known_hosts:18 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: Enabling compression at level 6. debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,passwo= rd debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,passwo= rd debug1: Next authentication method: password =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > Second, my id_dsa is my private key not my public key. My public key is > > id_dsa.pub > > but you will need your private key to be authenticated. that's why it is > *private*. That's right, so why does it: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa <--this doesn't exist debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa <--this is my privat= e=20 key =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > Is this a server configuration issue, or something to do with my Gentoo > > set up? > > ana in the server you'll need to put your *public* key into > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. I have of course done this first. > > PS. Not sure if this is relevant but although my user name on the server > > is mick, for reasons better known to him the sysadmin has created my ho= me > > directory as /home/mic - could it be that sshd is looking for /home/mic= k? > > that messages isn't from the server, is from client running locally. but = it > doesnt matter for what you want. It matters if the server is trying to find id_dsa.pub in a non-existing=20 directory. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2508753.cPyCnvxbyj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGXqaq5Fp0QerLYPcRAuFXAKCWAl3UqY7Uh3rc7EerBlH/FkFP4ACgz5i3 cDUMnE4VD7OwRKWgcbmIQtM= =04hU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2508753.cPyCnvxbyj-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list