[gentoo-user] Re: problem with ssh login

[Mateus Interciso <p.zarnick@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:44:24 +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:

> Hi lists,
>    i'm trying to remotely login to a Gentoo box via ssh. However (and
> the behaviour is the same from different machines) whenever i try to
> login the procedure hangs before recognizing the remote protocol
> version:
> 
> ssh -vvv pippo@pluto
> 
> OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration
> data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> ...
> [snip]
> ...
> ebug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END' debug3:
> key_read: missing keytype
> debug1: identity file /home/pippo/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity
> file /home/pippo/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> 
> [hangs here]
> 
> i can only do a Crtl+C and abort the ssh login session.
> 
> What can be the cause of this behaviour?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco

Try renaming the .ssh directory on your HOME to some other name, and try 
again.

Mateus.

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