Re: Public Key Authentication won't!

From: Darren (enation@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/29/02 

From: enation@hotmail.com (Darren)
Date: 29 Jan 2002 08:06:38 -0800

Bill Walsh <bwalsh3@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:<3C55FA61.D8BB3439@ix.netcom.com>...
> I'm trying to get public key authentication going to the point where it
> will prompt me for a passphrase instead of an account password.
> Password authentication works fine. The public an private keys are
> generated by The Book and installed, public and private keys in my
> client machine (at /home/bill/.ssh/id_dsa )and public key in my ISP's
> server at ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. The server is using SSH Secure Shell
> 2.40 and I am using OpenSSH with protocol 2.
>
> Before I installed the public & private keys I could use ssh and scp
> fine logging on with the account password. Now that I have the keys
> installed I am still prompted for my account password.
> Using the verbose option to ssh the messages end like this:
>
> authentications that can continue: publickey, password
> next aut method to try is publickey
> try priv key: /home/bill/.ssh/identity
> try priv key:/home/bill/.ssh/id_rsa
> try priv key:/home/bill/.ssh/id_dsa
> Authentications that can continue: publickey, password
> next aut method to try is password
> password:
>
> The file id_dsa is in place in my client. The id_dsa file owner and
> group are my local user account (different user name than in remote).
> Permissions are 644. I'm thinking the problem is in my local/client
> machine since the server is trying different types of private keys.
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Bill

Did you generate the key w/ the -t option?

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