Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot authenticate successfully with SSH

[Mick]

On Thursday 04 December 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Anyone know if RSA keys are incompatible between ssh-3.8 and sshd-4.2?
>
> I have this combination between 2 clients and 1 server.
> RSA keys consistently fail, DSA keys consistently succeed.
> The clients are on FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.5, server is FreeBSD 6.1
>
> I found one report on google of a similar case with a MacOS client
> connecting to a Gentoo server where the user reported
> upgrading to sshd-4.3 fixed it, but the key type was not mentioned and I
> cannot find any reference about it in OpenSSH's Changelogs, or it's
> bugzilla

Have you had a look at your .ssh/config on the client - you might have 
specified in there which method/keys to use and forgotten about it.  I've 
been through this loop a couple of times thinking why on earth is the login 
session behaving like this, only to discover that I had set up some parameter 
in the config file and forgotten all about it.
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Regards,
Mick