Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-23 Thread Tom Horsley
> > Does it maybe try every key and decide there are too many > > that don't work when I go over a certain number? > > That's exactly what it does, unless you explicitly specify which key to > use. This can be done from command line or in ~/.ssh/config (with > hostname/IP match) OK. I learn som

Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Konstantin Svist wrote: On 01/22/2016 03:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Does it maybe try every key and decide there are too many that don't work when I go over a certain number? That's exactly what it does, unless you explicitly specify which key to use. This can be done from command line or in ~

Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-22 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 01/22/2016 03:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Is this what's failing for you? > Actually, it is weird. If I have my "normal" ssh keys loaded in > the agent, I can login just fine and get the password prompt: > > tomh> ssh -l root fed23i > Enter passphrase for key '/home/tweety/.ssh/id_dsa': > root

Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-22 Thread Tom Horsley
> Is this what's failing for you? Actually, it is weird. If I have my "normal" ssh keys loaded in the agent, I can login just fine and get the password prompt: tomh> ssh -l root fed23i Enter passphrase for key '/home/tweety/.ssh/id_dsa': root@fed23i's password: Last login: Fri Jan 22 14:58:15 2

Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/23/16 07:23, Tom Horsley wrote: > If I try to login to a fedora 23 virtual machine as root, > I get rejected because of "too many authentication failures" > (or something like that, I don't remember the precise > wording). > > I'm running an agent, but none of the keys in the agent > would

Re: ssh confusion

2016-01-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 18:23 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Any ideas? I'd love to not have to dig up the > silly long option every time I want to login as root :-). Personally I block root logins on general principle (they're an obvious target). I login as my user and then run su or sudo. poc -- us

ssh confusion

2016-01-22 Thread Tom Horsley
If I try to login to a fedora 23 virtual machine as root, I get rejected because of "too many authentication failures" (or something like that, I don't remember the precise wording). I'm running an agent, but none of the keys in the agent would allow a root login so I expect it to fallback to a pa