Mick wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > >> Mick wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 >>> sshd, which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gentoo machine I am >>> running net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1. This is what it shows: >>> =================================================== >>> debug1: fd 3 clearing O_NONBLOCK >>> debug1: Connection established. >>> debug3: timeout: 14835 ms remain after connect >>> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa. >>> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN' >>> >> It sounds like you're using a pgp public key, is this on purpose? >> AFAIK, you need to convert pgp keys -> openssh keys before you use >> them. Have you tried making a public key via ssh-keygen? >> > > Thanks Eric, > > The "------BEGIN" string is I believe from the private key generated using > ssh-keygen. If looks like this: > ================================================= > > -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- > Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED > DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC, XXXXXXXXXXXX > > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX... etc. > ================================================= > > where "XXXXX" is the hash of the key. > > The public key starts with: > ================================================= > ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...etc > ================================================= > > As I mentioned the same ssh key pair seems to work fine with other servers. > What did you use to generate the key? Also, what does the client / server say for the key fail?
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