Re: Public key auth problems

From: colors (spam@nospam.org)
Date: 03/22/02 

From: colors <spam@nospam.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 04:36:31 GMT

On 3/21/02 3:19 PM, in article m1lbsdhbrmd.fsf@syrinx.oankali.net, "Richard
E. Silverman" <slade@shore.net> wrote:

>
> Well, the trace shows that it is trying publickey authentication, and the
> server is rejecting it. Check the sshd syslog messages on the server
> side, and/or try the connection with the server in debug mode (sshd -d) to
> find out why.
Thanks.

I did notice the

debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed

line, but since I get the same message when successfully connecting to the
other server, I somewhat disregarded it. Upon doing a little more digging
(in debug mode, as you suggested) I found that if I do public key and
provide the correct passphrase, the server rejects me immediately - however,
if I intentionally provide the incorrect passphrase, I get re-prompted to
enter it again.. That struck me as being somewhat weird - but being new to
this, what do I know..

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