Re: Openssh with mixed versions on client/server

From: Michael Heiming (michael@heiming.de)
Date: 01/02/02


From: Michael Heiming <michael@heiming.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 08:24:52 +0100

Rick (huntervalley@hotmail.com) wrote at Wednesday 02 January 2002
08:05:

> Hi,
>
> I have Openssh 3.0p1 running on Redhat 6.2 which was compiled and
> installed after downloading from openssh.com. This is machine is
> used as the client.
> The server is running Openssh 2.5.2p2, stock install on Redhat 7.1.
> I am able to login to the RH 7.1 box with a password, do scp and
> sftp etc when I supply a password.
> I want to login by using public key auth & have done ssh-keygen -d
> on the client and copied the id_dsa.pub to
> /user/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the server but it still asks for a
> password when logging in. I have read many posts on this and am sure
> I have it set up correctly, the man page was also followed but with
> no sucess. I am wondering if I need to have the same version of
> openssh on the server ?

Isn't needed normaly, try connecting with 'ssh -v ....', use multiple
-v to get even more verbose output, often the server will tell what's
wrong.

Hope this helps

Michael Heiming



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