have you googled 'linux ssh how to login without password' ?? On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 1:27 PM Kevin Becker <ke...@kevinbecker.org> wrote:
> I'm at a bit of a loss on this one so I thought I'd see if anyone has > any other suggestions. > > My home network is all Ubiquity UniFi gear. I have a USG-3P router, a > few switches and one AP. There is a UniFi controller app that > centrally handles the configuration of the devices, including managing > SSH access. You enter a public key in the controller software and it > distributes it to all the devices automatically. I rarely actually SSH > into any of the devices so I don't know when this stopped working but > at some point it did work. I have the public keys for my desktop and > laptop, both running Fedora 33, in the controller but when I attempt to > SSH I am prompted for the UniFi admin password rather than my private > key password. I don't get any sort of cipher mismatch or any other > error, it just prompts for the account password. > > Things I've tried: > * Verified permissions on ~/.ssh > * I can still SSH into many other hosts and they all accept my RSA key > just fine > * I removed and re-added the keys in the USG controller > * The fingerprint of the keys, as displaying in the controller > software, matches the fingerprint in seahorse (Passwords and Keys) > * Verified public key auth works to the UniFi gear from several other > devices I have, including a Macbook, iPhone, Raspberry Pi, and an > Ubuntu VM > * I built a fresh Fedora 33 virtual machine, added its public key, and > it has the same issue > * I verified the keys are actually being copied to the authorized_keys > on several different UniFi boxes > * Comparing keys to my MacBook, both are RSA and have a length of 3072 > > Essentially any Fedora box I've tried won't do public key auth to any > of the UniFi gear but they all authenticate fine everywhere else, and > every non-Fedora device I've tried can authenticate to the UniFi stuff. > The UniFi gear doesn't even all run the same OS, the USG runs EdgeOS > and has the keys in .ssh/authorized_keys but the switches have a > busybox shell and use dropbear for ssh with the keys at > /etc/dropbear/authorized_keys > > I can just use the password for SSH, it's very rare that I actually > have any reason to do it at all, it's just the puzzle that is driving > me crazy. > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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