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On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:38, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> wrote: |
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> > > > Second, my id_dsa is my private key not my public key. My public |
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> > > > key is id_dsa.pub |
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> > > |
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> > > but you will need your private key to be authenticated. that's why |
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> > > it is *private*. |
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> > That's right, so why does it: |
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> > ====================================== |
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> > debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa <--this doesn't |
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> > exist debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa <--this is |
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> > my private key ====================================== |
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> What is wrong with that? It just says it is trying to access id_rsa, |
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> not that there is one. So it fails, of course. So not existing key |
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> isn't a matter here. It's _debugging_ output, so not necessarily |
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> important information. |
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> Using the private key is absolutely normal. A test message is encrypted |
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> using it and is then being sent to the server, hence the term "offering". |
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> I don't see what you are wondering about here. |
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what's wrong there is that it's saying that id_dsa is a PUBLIC key. ;) |
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[]'s |
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.m |
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