Daniel Griscom wrote:
At 7:32 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote:
Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess
you did
since you had to copy the public key).
No; I'd thought that ssh-user-config was to configure an account that
was to be an ssh client (e.g. one within which I'd use ssh to connect to
another machine). I copied the public key from another workstation from
which I've used ssh public key connections for a number of servers.
What you reported about the log is simple, the password used is not
correct...
it should prompt you 3 times and then close the connection; or the
configuration
does not allow password authentication, let's check this last one:
In /etc/sshd_config you should have:
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
#UsePAM no
All three lines are present and commented out (as above).
I thought you were trying to use public/private key authentication, not
password authentication?
If so, then the first line above needs to be uncommented and changed to
'no'. (Remember to keep a session open while you're testing changes,
and any changes won't become "live" until sshd is restarted on the host.)
I think you said you were using authorized_keys2 as the public key file,
try using ~/authorized_keys (note the missing '2'). That would be
something like:
/home/daniel/.ssh/authorized_keys
Or whatever username you're trying to login to.
Michael
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