Re: Mismatched user authentication

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 01/19/02 

From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 19 Jan 2002 18:01:53 GMT

In <mfd28.2$2o3.234@news.ecrc.de> mschloh@netscape.net writes:

]Richard E. Silverman <slade@shore.net> wrote:
]>> I have my public key on the remote machine, and don't really know why I
]>> can't login without password auth.
]>
]> What exactly have you done with the key to authorize it? What are the OS
]> and SSH versions involved on both sides?

]Client#0 is SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1, on Solaris 8 Intel
]Server#1 is SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1, on FreeBSD 4.3 Intel
]Server#2 is SSH Secure Shell 3.0.1, on Solaris 8 SPARC

?? is that ssh or openssh. You say one thing above and another below.

]I created my client public key and then converted it to OpenSSH format before
]uploading it to my home directory on the servers. I have one home directory,
]because all servers are NIS and NFS mapped.

What do you mean "uploading it to my home director"? Be more specific.
ssh needs the key in a very specific place, and putting it into
/home/user/mypublickey will not do.

]When I log onto Server#1, I must use password authentication. When I log onto
]Server#2 I am able to use public key authentication. The sshd_config files are
]identical on each server as are their SSH versions. This is what is confusing
]me. Some debug data follows. Note that the first sections of each session are
]identical until one states that public key authentication is disabled (!).

Look into the /etc/ssh/sshd_config and ssh_config files. Make sure that
you use the same protocol on all (eg Protocol 2,1)

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