On 4/12/2012 12:50 PM, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my server to allow key-based authentication and
> am not having any luck. I initially created the key on the windows
> box with ssh-user-config. Then I copied the private key (I know,
> that's not how you are supposed to do it, but I was worried that on
> cygwin it needed to do some extra special steps) to my desktop. Now I
> have the following in my .ssh/config:
>
> host fl
> user Administrator
> hostname FrewLynx
> port 22
> identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa2
>
> so when I do ssh fl it should expand to Administrator@FrewLynx with
> the correct key.
That configuration stanza expects to find your private key in
~/.ssh/id_rsa2
but you said you copied it to your desktop. Did you *move* it to your
Windows desktop, so it is no longer in ~/.ssh/id_rsa2?
> Here is the log from ssh -vvv fl
>
> OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-7ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011
[snip]
> debug2: key: /home/frew/.ssh/keys/frewlynx.rsa ((nil))
It's trying to use ~/.ssh/keys/frewlynx.rsa as the key. Is there more in
your ~/.ssh/config file that specifies this? Or maybe in
/etc/ssh_config? Maybe a "Host *" stanza somewhere before your "Host f1"
stanza?
> Can anyone help me out and tell me what I need to change?
You can get the ~/.ssh/config file out of the way to see if you can get
this to work:
$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK= ssh -F /dev/null -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa2 \
Administrator@FrewLynx
If that works, the problem is in your ~/.ssh/config (or possible
/etc/ssh_config). If that doesn't work, check the -vvv output again to
see which key it's trying to use.
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