On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Herrington <[email protected]> wrote: > This works from an internal Mac to the Mint machine with the same > id_rsa.pub (I copied it over to the Solaris machine by using scp. Directory > permissions: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 XX XXX 1024 Oct 20 16:34 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 XX X 1024 Oct 20 14:21 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 XX XXX 392 Oct 20 15:47 authorized_keys > -rw------- 1 XX XXX 392 Oct 20 15:35 authorized_keys.old > -rw-r--r-- 1 XX XXX 246 Oct 20 16:35 config > -rw-r--r-- 1 XX XXX 392 Oct 20 15:21 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 XX XXX 392 Oct 20 16:34 id_rsa.pub > -rw-r--r-- 1 XX XXX 805 Oct 20 15:12 known_hosts
The fact that both id_rsa and id_rsa.pub are the same size looks pretty suspect to me. I suspect you accidentally copied id_rsa.pub over id_rsa, which would usually be quite a bit larger. To check, inspect the contents with a text editor. A private key should start with "-- BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY --" (and a similar "END" one at the end), and stretches across multiple lines. In contrast, an OpenSSH public key file is always represented on a single (very long) text line, that would begin with the word "ssh-rsa", and usually ends with the username@host, possibly with an identifying name in there too. Bottom line is that the server is saying that it could read your public key, but that it doesn't correspond to one that it accepts as an authorized key. Something went wrong during the copy. Perhaps, try scping the id_rsa.pub into a safe place on the internal Mac and then diffing the two to confirm that it really did transfer over correctly. Also compare the sizes of id_rsa and id_rsa.pub on the Mac. If they differ, then one of them was probably wrong on your Solaris machine (given that the Mac is working). If you have root access on the Mint machine, it might be worthwhile to temporarily enable debugging on the server side as well, to get much more verbose information there. Good luck! -mjc _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
