Shouldn't need to regenerate the keys.. once you get them generated once they 
should be good for the life of the machine.
Save copies of the keys as they are now and if your system goes bad, do 
differences to see what changed, if anything.

Steve Timm


From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph 
Areeda
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: scientific-linux-users
Subject: Re: ssh returns "Permission denied (gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)."

Thank you Tam, and Steven,

I just confirmed that regenerating the keys (ssh-keygen -t dsa -f 
ssh_host_dsa_key && ssh -t rsa -f ssh_host_rsa_key) in /etc/ssh "fixes the 
problem"

So ssh -vv shows me how it's supposed to look.  I'll save that and do a diff 
when it happens again.

As I continue my googling I can report on a few things it's not

Server machine has a fixed ip address and dns/rdns appears working.

Time issue Steven mentioned does not seem to be it, although I may stop using 
pool machines and set up a local ntp server so everybody gets the same time.  I 
can ssh and gsissh to other servers.

Server:
ntpq -p

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*ping-audit-207- .ACTS.           1 u    5  128  377   19.867    5.804   1.927
+10504.x.rootbsd 198.30.92.2      2 u  129  128  376   45.146  -28.571   5.558
+ntp.sunflower.c 132.236.56.250   3 u   77  128  355   63.836  -14.753   5.360
-ntp2.ResComp.Be 128.32.206.55    3 u  126  128  377   22.112    7.311   2.022

Client:

ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 64.147.116.229  .ACTS.           1 u   47  128    0   13.543    0.567   0.000
*nist1-chi.ustim .ACTS.           1 u   25  128  377  106.619   14.458   5.896
+name3.glorb.com 69.36.224.15     2 u   64  128  377   88.564  -27.542   3.631
+131.211.8.244   .PPS.            1 u   81  128  377  167.107    3.259   2.340



The only setting I change in sshd_config is to turn off password auth but this 
machine is being brought up behind a firewall and I haven't done that yet.  
Also if it was a config problem I doubt changing the key would fix it, even 
temporarily.

I will report back with the ssh -vv stuff when it happens again.
At least now I have a chance of figuring out what's going on.

Best,
Joe


On 11/21/2012 02:30 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:
Hi Joe,
Did you look at the sshd_config file?
I ran into a similar error output but it may not necessarily be the same issue 
you're having.  In my case, the sshd_conf file on one of my users machine was 
edited and renamed.  I backup that file and copy a default sshd_config file, 
then test it.

Good luck.
-T
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Joseph Areeda 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I can't figure out what causes this error.

I can "fix" it by regenerating the server key on the system I'm trying to 
connect to and restarting sshd but that seems to be temporary as the same 
problem comes back in a week or so.  Rebooting the server does not fix it.

Does anyone know what that error means?  I am using ssh not gsissh although I 
do have globus toolkit installed to contact grid computers.

I'm pretty sure it's a misconfiguration on my part but I can't figure out what 
I did or didn't do.

Thanks,

Joe

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