>From man ssh:
-i identity_file
Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for public key
authentication is read. The default is ~/.ssh/id_dsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa,
~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and ~/.ssh/id_rsa. Identity files may also be specified on a
per-host basis in the configuration file. It is possible to have multiple -i
options (and multiple identities specified in configuration files). If no
certificates have been explicitly specified by the CertificateFile directive,
ssh will also try to load certificate information from the filename obtained by
appending -cert.pub to identity filenames.
Accodring to that the above reported behavior is correct.
I tried your case and found Fedora and Centos work the same way as Ubuntu.
Note: filename is id_rsa not id-rsa
Didn't work with "localhost" nor with a real hostname set in /etc/hosts
This doesn't seem "SSH not honoring use of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" to me.
What you want seems to me more like "Try target hostname as -i argument
~/.ssh/<hostname>.pub" is that right?
You might also have an ssh-agent set up, that will pick up the key on first use
and might try it.
Maybe you happen to have that in your own ssh config?
What you (seem to) want can be achieved by this entry in /etc/ssh/ssh_config:
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/%h
But that would just be a local config and not a bug.
It might be discussed as default config, but people don't want to use keys by
default too easily.
All tested systems have no difference in their default configs in regard to
IdentityFile.
Do the systems that you report as working better have anything in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config for it?
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Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1858285
Title:
SSH not honoring use of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Have tested this successfully on other distros, used the same steps to
updating /etc/ssh/sshd_config but SSH will not honor the use of
~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Simple test
mkdir -m 700 ~/.ssh
cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
press enter to accept the defaults and empty passphrase
cp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
ssh localhost /bin/date
works
mv id-rsa $(hostname -s)
mv id-rsa.pub $(hostname -s).pub
ssh localhost /bin/date
**fails. this works on CentOS, RHEL
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: openssh-server 1:8.0p1-6build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-1014.16-raspi2 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-1014-raspi2 aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: arm64
Date: Sat Jan 4 12:42:58 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/sshd
ProcEnviron:
LANG=C.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: openssh
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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