On Sunday 07 December 2008 17:47:07 Mick wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Anyone know if RSA keys are incompatible between ssh-3.8 and sshd-4.2? > > > > I have this combination between 2 clients and 1 server. > > RSA keys consistently fail, DSA keys consistently succeed. > > The clients are on FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.5, server is FreeBSD 6.1 > > > > I found one report on google of a similar case with a MacOS client > > connecting to a Gentoo server where the user reported > > upgrading to sshd-4.3 fixed it, but the key type was not mentioned and I > > cannot find any reference about it in OpenSSH's Changelogs, or it's > > bugzilla > > Have you had a look at your .ssh/config on the client - you might have > specified in there which method/keys to use and forgotten about it. I've > been through this loop a couple of times thinking why on earth is the login > session behaving like this, only to discover that I had set up some > parameter in the config file and forgotten all about it.
Thanks for replying. I had previously gone through all relevant config files, without success. Just now I tried to login again and this time it succeeded... I reckon that during my previous tests, I must have forgotten to restart sshd after the last change. Now I can't recall what the last change was, so the slow process of trying to recreate it now begins. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
