Well, try adding the key to authorized_keys on a box where you have ssh working and see if it works. If not, you know you have a key problem. If so, you know you have a permissions problem.
-Len On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 1/23/2012 11:59 AM, Len Giambrone wrote: >> That looks like an SSH2 key, not an OpenSSH key. >> >> I downloaded puttygen to see exactly what you see. >> And after you load a key (generate one) right at the top it says: >> >> Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file: >> _key here_ >> >> >> For example, here is what it says for the key I just generated: >> ssh-dss >> 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 >> dsa-key-20120123 >> >> THIS is what your OpenSSH public key should look like. > I agree 100%. And I did that - to start with, and did it again many times to > verify it, etc. Problem is it constantly fails. > > I think the problem is really one of permissions, not the appropriate key. > Seem ssh to local host even prompts me. > -- > Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> > An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. - Mohandas Gandhi > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
