Hi.
I am having problems using publickey auth on newly installed SSH
2.0.13 servers. There are no previous instances of SSH on the
machines that I am testing on.
I've configured, compiled, and installed with no problems. The server
daemon runs with no visible problem. I generated public and private
keys on the local machine, created the appropriate 'identification'
file under ~/.ssh2/, transferred the public key to the target remote
host (which runs the same version of SSH), created the appropriate
'authorization' file under ~/.ssh2/ in the target account of the
remote server ... all with no problems.
The server running sshd was initially configured with
AllowedAuthentication publickey,password
In this case, the incoming connection ALWAYS failed over to password
type authentication. Changing the server to
AllowedAuthentication publickey
resulted in an interesting turn of events ... the sshd server process
jumped up to an average of 25% CPU utilization (peaking occasionally
at 60+%). Both ssh client and server seemed to hang at this point,
requireing a <ctl>-c on the client to terminate the process.
We are running Red Hat Linux 6.0 and SSH2 was compiled with gcc
(egcs-2.91.66).
Any ideas on what is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
kevin
