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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 16:38 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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

And/or what Bill said. Thought of that 3 seconds after hitting send, but
he beat me to it.

Also, for the record, DSA is somewhat frowned upon by those in the
security world, RSA is highly preferred.


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Jarod Wilson
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