Re: [gentoo-user] Re: git wants a password to portage sync

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 06/12/17 06:43, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 06/12/2017 00:35, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> On 2017-12-06 05:53, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>
>>> No, all machines are set up as keyless ssh - git has never needed it
>>> there.  In frustration I created keys and set portage up as a keyless
>>> ssh account as well, no change.
>>
>> ssh messages are sometimes misleading.  For instance, ssh would say
>> something like "pubkey authentication failed" when in fact I prohibited
>> root logins on the server.
>>
>> I'd try connecting with bare ssh as the user in question, with maximum
>> verbosity turned on (-vvv).
>>
> 
> 
> The error messages from the ssh client are, by design, intentionally
> vague. They amount to a teeny bit more detail than just "something went
> wrong", plus the available auth methods listed in parenthesis.
> 
> This is because the sshd server avoids information leakage that
> attackers could use.
> 
> To find out why ssh does not work, start by looking at the server logs,
> then examine the client is nothing obvious stands out.
> 

Got it! Needed ssh keys for portage@remote from root@local.  Its working
but no idea why its only this machine that required it.

Thanks,
BillK