Re: sshd public key problem

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 04/21/05


Date: 21 Apr 2005 21:32:32 GMT

On 2005-04-21, max <maximilian.michel@gmail.com> wrote:
> i found a strange thing: a SuSE server runs sshd (openssh-3.7.1p2-18),
> connecting with PublicKey (ssh2) from Windows+Putty is all fine, but
> connecting from Gentoo (3.9_p1-r2) creates following lines in log:
> ...
> Apr 21 17:20:48 bender sshd[27428]: error: key_from_blob: remaining
> bytes in key blob 844

I would guess that you have a corrupt key in your authorized_keys.

Try removing each line in turn and seeing if any the errors stop.

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