Re: hostbased auth between commercial and OpenSSH

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 12/21/02 

From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 21 Dec 2002 06:16:19 -0500

> ~/.ssh2/authorization perms are 600 contents=Key myclienthost.id_dsa.pub
> and myclienthost.id_dsa.pub (this is the user-generated pub. key from
> myclienthost, not host key) is in this directory

You realize that this is irrelevant to hostbased authentication...

> and myclienthost's host key has been accepted as a known host.

Why do you think you know this?

You do realize you need to convert the format of the host keys involved,
since OpenSSH and SSH2 use different on-disk key formats?

Get debug output from the server to look at. 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net

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