Re: Help with OpenSSH -> SSH2 Server

From: Greg Wooledge (wooledg_at_eeg.ccf.org)
Date: 05/20/03

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    Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:19:08 -0400
To: secureshell <secureshell@securityfocus.com>

    On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:33:13PM -0700, Andrew n marshall wrote:
    > I'm still having the previously mentioned problems. But here is a new
    > data point... the verbose log.
    > The only thing strange I see is near the bottom:
    > debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
    > debug1: try privkey: /Users/user/.ssh/id_rsa
    > debug1: try pubkey: /Users/user/.ssh/id_dsa
    >
    > ~/.ssh/id_dsa is a PRIVATE key (the public key would be id_dsa.pub).
    > Why is it reading it as a pubkey?

    The ssh client reads the private key and uses it to prove its identity
    to the server, which holds the public key.

    > I also glanced at the file permissions, and they match my expectations
    > (600 for private, and 644 for public).

    Check the permissions on the directories, too -- the .ssh directory,
    and the home directory, and all the directories leading up to that.

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