I'm having a similar problem (see archived post below) using RSA2 public key auth on an FC4 machine.
I've set UseDNS to off and it still doesn't work: UseDNS no Here is the -vvv output: debug1: Offering agent key: /home/kitamura/.ssh/id_rsa debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password If reverse lookups are off, and everything thing else is in place and has correct permissions, why else would public key auth fail? Linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:14 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005 Masao List: secure-shell Subject: Re: problem with publickey authentication From: Duane Winner <dwinner () utrs ! com> Date: 2006-10-20 15:46:25 Message-ID: 4538EF51.6040307 () utrs ! com [Download message RAW] This problem has been solved. The problem was that the Windows SSH Server had reverse DNS lookup checks turned on, and I had no reverse lookup DNS entry for the test server (FreeBSD), but did have one for the working server (Linux). It had nothing to do w/ the OS or OpenSSH version. -DW
