[Techtalk] Help with SSH private/public key pair

[Tricia Bowen]

Here are two excellent articles that should shed some light on debugging
the login prompt:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/

--Tricia

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Mary Gardiner wrote:

|Hi,
|
|I've generated a private/public key pair for use with ssh, using the
|ssh-keygen program. The output informed me it was an RSA1 type key.
|
|I have placed the public key from ~/.ssh/identity.pub in
|~/.ssh/authorized_keys on two remote hosts. This should mean that I am
|prompted for my key passphrase when sshing to these machines (as has
|worked for about the last two years I've been using ssh), but instead I
|am still being asked for my password.
|
|The version according to ssh -V is:
|OpenSSH_2.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
|
|The system is a Debian testing (woody) system - apt reports the ssh
|version as:
|Package: ssh
|Architecture: i386
|Source: openssh
|Version: 1:1.2.3-9.3
|
|The output of ssh -v originally showed:
|debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
|debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
|debug1: try privkey: /home/mary/.ssh/id_rsa
|debug1: try privkey: /home/mary/.ssh/id_dsa
|debug1: next auth method to try is password
|mary at hostname's password:
|
|I tried making a symbolic link to /home/mary/.ssh/id_rsa to
|/home/mary/.ssh/identity which contains the private key, but then the
|output is:
|debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password
|debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
|debug1: try privkey: /home/mary/.ssh/id_dsa
|debug1: next auth method to try is password
|mary at hostname's password:
|
|What's up?
|
|-Mary.
|
|