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sshd stil asks for a password
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| mosfet 2007-12-08, 7:43 pm |
| Hi,
I am trying to configure access to my ubuntu 7.04(feisty) using sshd and
DSA without success.
So for now I have 3 accounts where I can log into using a ssh with
standard password.
let's says I have an account test@server.com with a password 1234.
Now to log in I do a simple ssh test@server.com and then I enter 1234.
So far so good.
Now I would like to use a DSA key to log so I have created a
public/private DSA key pair with empty passphrase
test@server.com:~/.ssh$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
id_dsa
id_dsa.pub
then I added it to /home/test/.ssh/authorized_keys file
test@server.com:~/.ssh$ cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys
and restart openssh
test@server.com:~/.ssh$ /etc/init.d/ssh restart
I emailed(don't care about security because it's just a test) the
private key to my home PC(running also ubuntu 7.04) and put the id_dsa
in my /home/vince/.ssh.
So now when I try to log like this :
ssh test@server.com
sshd stills asks me a password.
What am I doing wrong ?
Please help
Thnaks a lot
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| Dave Hinz 2007-12-08, 7:43 pm |
| On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:42:22 +0100, mosfet <john@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
Hi John, let's see here...
(snip great problem description)
> So now when I try to log like this :
> ssh test@server.com
> sshd stills asks me a password.
> What am I doing wrong ?
What are the permissions on your .ssh directory and the files in it? I
think they need to be 600, but verify that. If it's world
anything-able, sshd won't use it, for reasons that make sense if you
think about it.
Let us know how it turns out.
Dave
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| mosfet 2007-12-08, 7:43 pm |
| Dave Hinz a écrit :
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:42:22 +0100, mosfet <john@free.fr> wrote:
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> Hi John, let's see here...
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> (snip great problem description)
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> What are the permissions on your .ssh directory and the files in it? I
> think they need to be 600, but verify that. If it's world
> anything-able, sshd won't use it, for reasons that make sense if you
> think about it.
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> Let us know how it turns out.
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> Dave
>
Ok I think I found the problem.
When I generatethe dsa key I get this :
ssh-dss AAAAB3.........== test@hostname
but hostname is not the right one.
I have changed it and it works.
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| On Dec 8, 4:32 pm, mosfet <j...@free.fr> wrote:
> Dave Hinz a =E9crit :
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> Ok I think I found the problem.
> When I generatethe dsa key I get this :
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> ssh-dss AAAAB3.........=3D=3D test@hostname
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> but hostname is not the right one.
> I have changed it and it works.
Strange, I use a key that I generated a lot of years ago with the name
of a machine that does not exist anymore: and it still works.
Did you also change something else?
Matteo
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