Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > I agree with your reasoning, But I am having a problem on which I need help: > > I have three computers, Big, Dl2, and Gq. Big is the computer at which I sit > when I reading this list and other user-type activities. The other two I use > servers that I can't do on Big. I use ssh to log into them to maintain their > software, and to adjust their service configuration. They are all running > Jessie, fully up to date. Earlier, only Big and Gq were running and Dl2 was > sitting idle. I installed Jessie on Dl2 after the release of Jessie. All three > have both openssh-client and openssh-server installed. > > I go into this seeming unnecessary detail because the behavior ot ssh > in this environment is very strange: > > Sitting at Big, logged in as user pec, I can: > > connect to pec@gq without giving any password > connect to root@gq also without a password > connect to pec@dl2 also without a password > But I CANNOT connect to root@dl2. When I try I'm asked to type in password > and when I type it in I get a response "denied, please try again" > I know the root password to Dl2 and the password for the ssh key that > I generated for /root/.ssh/id-rsa , and I carefully contrived to make it > the same as system password to that of system user 'root'.
What do you mean by "password for the ssh key"? If you mean you set a *passphrase*, I don't think you want one. Also, have you allowed yourself to login as root (to make the initial key transfer)? > Also, ssh-copy-id doesn't seem to be working. But I've never used it before > this episode, so maybe on this I'm misreading the man page. "Not working" is no help. If you use $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub <username>@<remotehost> what does it say, and does any file in .ssh/ get modified at remotehost? Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150514011417.GA19224@alum
