Alexander V. Makartsev <[email protected]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, size 1.3K, charset UTF-8, 43 lines, encoding 8bit --] > > On 7/6/26 00:19, Chris Green wrote: > > This isn't a problem as such but I don't understand why it's happening > > and I'd like to understand. > > > > I have a VPS called isbd.biz and I access it using ssh. My user > > account on both my local machine (desktop and laptop) is 'chris' and > > my user account on isbd.biz is also 'chris'. > > > > I have account 'chris' on isbd.biz set up to allow login only using > > public key authentication. > > > > The ip address of isbd.biz is 213.171.194.64. > > > > If I log in with 'ssh 213.171.194.64' I, correctly, get prompted for > > my local system's public key passphrase and I can log in successfully. > > > > However if I try 'ssh isbd.biz' I get prompted for"[email protected]'s > > password" > which doesn't exist and I can't log in. > > > > 'host isbd.biz' returns the correct IP address for isbd.biz so why > > does ssh not work using the name rather than the IP address? > > > Check your ssh client config file (should be at /home/chris/.ssh/config) > You probably didn't setup it for the host isbd.biz, or didn't put the > IdentityFile directive correctly. > The host entry in your case should look like this: > > Host isbd.biz > HostName isbd.biz > Port 22 > User chris > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-ssh-key-for-isbd-biz.key > But that's all default settings. Sites work without entries in ~/.ssh/config if the configuration is as you've shown above.
-- Chris Green ·
