It's possible I am.
I'm running redhat 6.1 I have openssh-2.3.0 installed in /usr/local/openssh
and it is running. I run it with this command:
/usr/local/openssh/sbin/sshd -b 1024 -h /usr/local/openssh/etc/ssh_host_key
-g 180
When I try to connect to it with my client, it asks for my password for the
username. I put in that password and it fails.
I read the manual about what files to put where. I re-read it after sending
my first message and it says the authorized_keys should have a copy of the
identity.pub file. Well, I'll quote it... At this location:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh#F%3c%2fB%3e%3cB%3eI%3c%2fB%
3e%3cB%3eL%3c%2fB%3e%3cB%3eE%3c%2fB%3e%3cB%3eS
(I know, long url, it's encoded)
It says here:
$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub, $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
Contains the public key for authentication (public part of the identity file
in human-readable form). The contents of the $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub file
should be added to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on all machines where you wish
to log in using RSA authentication. The contents of the
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file should be added to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on
all machines where you wish to log in using DSA authentication. These files
are not sensitive and can (but need not) be readable by anyone. These files
are never used automatically and are not necessary; they is only provided
for the convenience of the user.
And under authorized_keys it says:
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
Lists the RSA keys that can be used for logging in as this user. The format
of this file is described in the sshd(8) manual page. In the simplest form
the format is the same as the .pub identity files (that is, each line
contains the number of bits in modulus, public exponent, modulus, and
comment fields, separated by spaces). This file is not highly sensitive,
but the recommended permissions are read/write for the user, and not
accessible by others.
My identity.pub file looks like this:
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "1024-bit rsa"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAACBAMgWU7Ndd/wRMWxVmzdPYBGjcvZGullbOhWCOO/qLovqstXnBZ
x6qlwaV0tOh8e/R38vL+jiUXiffoyg2ytHAj5P8+JimA51SlwHuVr0zHOVz1lGJ2cAVnXh
+jbGW6PLTwcp7w/yRrvCaR7QyeS3qTAfKD8D5D0mq+zj7B4XkC5BAAAABBQuUJk=
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Nothing like what it describes there or what it describes in the sshd(8) man
file.
In fact, the sshd(8) man says that the key will start with a number whereas
mine starts with a letter which, in it's description, means that it's the
beginning of the comment section of that line. This may very well be the
root of my problem but I don't know how to get my public key into the format
called for by the authorized_keys file.
When I turn debug on the server, it definitely fails when trying my RSA key
authentication.
On 1/29/01 11:06 PM this was written:
> You are most likely making this too hard. Since you did not say what linux
> distro you are using I cannot be too specific. However I will assume you
> want to ssh from the mac into the linux box. In order to do this you need
> to have an ssh server running on the linux box. The packages that I am used
> to (eg: redhat) have an open-ssh, open-ssh-client and open-ssh-server.
> I install all 3 and make sure the server is running. At that point it
> just works. You can then read the manual or for that matter last months
> and this months Linux Journal and find out other cool things todo with it.
> For the inital setup you do NOT need to put anything in .ssh. The packages
> will usually populate them for you.
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IT Manager
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