On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:42, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:57, Mick wrote:
> > I find it confusing. First of all I do not have a id_rsa. > > it tries the default keys (id_rsa or id_dsa), if exists. id_rsa does not exist in my local /home/michael/.ssh/ only id_dsa is there and the public key that I have saved in /home/mic/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server is my corresponding id_dsa.pub. > if you don't want > it to try it, you can use the -i parameter to ssh pointing to your private > key (ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa <user>@<server>), Trying with the -i option also fails: ====================================== $ ssh -v -p 22 -i /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa mick@<blah-blah> [snip] debug1: Found key in /home/michael/.ssh/known_hosts:18 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: Enabling compression at level 6. debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: Next authentication method: password ====================================== > > Second, my id_dsa is my private key not my public key. My public key is > > id_dsa.pub > > but you will need your private key to be authenticated. that's why it is > *private*. That's right, so why does it: ====================================== debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa <--this doesn't exist debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa <--this is my private key ====================================== > > Is this a server configuration issue, or something to do with my Gentoo > > set up? > > ana in the server you'll need to put your *public* key into > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. I have of course done this first. > > PS. Not sure if this is relevant but although my user name on the server > > is mick, for reasons better known to him the sysadmin has created my home > > directory as /home/mic - could it be that sshd is looking for /home/mick? > > that messages isn't from the server, is from client running locally. but it > doesnt matter for what you want. It matters if the server is trying to find id_dsa.pub in a non-existing directory. -- Regards, Mick
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