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Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 20:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "'The Buddha' Doug McLean" <dougmc@u.washington.edu>
To: UW Linux Group <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: public key authentication on dante
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Ben,

A couple things to keep in mind:

1.  If you made your key using OpenSSH, you have to translate it into a
format readable by ssh2 and ssh1, both of which are on Dante.  I would go
with ssh2 since it is more secure, but ssh1 will still work fine.  I
believe the OpenSSH command to do the translation is:

ssh-keygen -e -f public_key_file > another_file.pub

Then use the other file as the key on Dante.

2.  Make sure the permissions on the authorized_keys file is correct.  It
should only be readable by you.

If that doesn't fix it, please provide the output of ssh -v.  It should
provide some pretty useful information.  :)

Doug McLean
UW Educational Outreach
http://faculty.washington.edu/dougmc
PGP Public Key ID# 0xF96E92D8

_______________________________________________
>From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
"Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."

Meanwhile, in Gotham, Ben Monnahan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is is possible to get public key authentication working on dante?  I
> noticed the configuration file is world readable and it seems that it is
> enabled.(the output of ssh -v also shows this)  I've tried putting my
> public key(version 2) in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys,
> ~/.ssh/authorization, and .ssh2/authorized_keys/id_dsa.pub but nothing
> seems to work.  It always falls back to password.  Does anyone know what I
> may be doing wrong?
>
> I don't think its a problem with my keys or my setup at home because I
> have it successfully working on the CSE servers.  If the output of ssh -v
> would help let me know, I would be happy to provide it.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>

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