On 20150513_1117+0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:36:15PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > I put more trust into the OpenBSD/OpenSSH developers. Apparent and not-so- > > apparent bugs ought to be reported to them IMHO. That way an excellent > > product > > may become even better. > > I'd likewise stick with openssh personally, but if one is keen to try > alternatives > there's also dropbear - https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
I agree with your reasoning, But I am having a problem on which I need help: I have three computers, Big, Dl2, and Gq. Big is the computer at which I sit when I reading this list and other user-type activities. The other two I use servers that I can't do on Big. I use ssh to log into them to maintain their software, and to adjust their service configuration. They are all running Jessie, fully up to date. Earlier, only Big and Gq were running and Dl2 was sitting idle. I installed Jessie on Dl2 after the release of Jessie. All three have both openssh-client and openssh-server installed. I go into this seeming unnecessary detail because the behavior ot ssh in this environment is very strange: Sitting at Big, logged in as user pec, I can: connect to pec@gq without giving any password connect to root@gq also without a password connect to pec@dl2 also without a password But I CANNOT connect to root@dl2. When I try I'm asked to type in password and when I type it in I get a response "denied, please try again" I know the root password to Dl2 and the password for the ssh key that I generated for /root/.ssh/id-rsa , and I carefully contrived to make it the same as system password to that of system user 'root'. Perhaps I am doing something really stupid. Maybe, but has anyone ever been able to establish ssh connections without passwords merely by being stupid? Also, ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to be working. But I've never used it before this episode, so maybe on this I'm misreading the man page. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150513232852.ga24...@big.lan.gnu