[SLL] Anybody know why my Ubuntu sshd server isn't taking my DSA public key?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue May 20 13:38:35 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 13:30 -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> I'm able to log in to my CentOS server using a DSA public key and no 
> password.  It has version:
> 
> OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
> 
> but my Ubuntu server, which is Hardy, and has:
> 
> OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
> 
> isn't taking the thing.  In both cases I insert the key to the 
> .ssh/authorized_keys file using vim, and for the Ubuntu/Hardy I get 
> prompted for a password.  Go figure that.  ???

Probably ssh daemon configuration differences.

man sshd_config


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Jarod Wilson
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