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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 07 December 2008 17:47:07 Mick wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for replying. I had previously gone through all relevant config files, 
without success. Just now I tried to login again and this time it 
succeeded...

I reckon that during my previous tests, I must have forgotten to restart sshd 
after the last change. Now I can't recall what the last change was, so the 
slow process of trying to recreate it now begins.

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