Hello, I am currently trying to implement ssh authentication through libssh2 in order to execute a command on the remote system and return its result.
While libssh2 is working flawlessly with password authentication, I am struggling to get it to work with public key authentication. I have modeled my code for this part after the example in ssh2_exec.c -- however, when I call libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile() it returns the -18, which means "Username/PublicKey combination invalid" as far as I can tell. I have built libssh2 with enable-debug, enabled the trace and set the log level for the sshd on the remote system to DEBUG3. From what I can tell from the logs, libssh2 sends the public key and then receives the list of authentication methods, upon which the error is triggered: => libssh2_transport_read() plain (45 bytes) 0000: 33 00 00 00 27 70 75 62 6C 69 63 6B 65 79 2C 70 : 3...'publickey,p 0010: 61 73 73 77 6F 72 64 2C 6B 65 79 62 6F 61 72 64 : assword,keyboard 0020: 2D 69 6E 74 65 72 61 63 74 69 76 65 00 : -interactive. [libssh2] 0.640831 Transport: Packet type 51 received, length=45 [libssh2] 0.640836 Transport: Looking for packet of type: 52 [libssh2] 0.640839 Transport: Looking for packet of type: 51 [libssh2] 0.640842 Failure Event: -18 - Username/PublicKey combination invalid The sshd logs on the remote system do not show any failed login attempt, it seems that the client simply disconnects. The keypair in question works without any issues when used with "ssh -i" and with the ssh functionality I'm trying to replace. I've observed this behavior in both libssh2 1.2.7 and 1.2.8; it does not seem to make a difference whether openssl or libgcrypt is used. The private key in question is using a passphrase, if it matters. Are there any obvious mistakes I'm making which would explain this behavior? I've observed that libssh2_userauth_list() returns null if executed in a non-blocking session, so I have tried setting the session to non-blocking either after or before calling libssh2_userauth_publickey_fromfile(), but that did not change anything. If there is any other information you need, feel free to ask. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Michael -- Michael Wiegand | Greenbone Networks GmbH | http://www.greenbone.net/ Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Executive Directors: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-devel
