Hi, Dan Purgert: > Mark Fletcher wrote: >> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an >> rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the >> client. Which is a bit cheeky. > >> You may need a key created with a stronger method, such as ecdsa or >> ed25519. > > Could even be as simple as he sent a /different/ key across (e.g. he > sent "home-key.pub", which corresponds to "home-key_rsa" rather than > "id_rsa"). > No. I wrote that I /checked/ the public key copied to the server after having copied it to the server's ~/.ssh directory. I edited it with a text editor and compared it with the one I have in local ~/.ssh
Cheers, Stephan
