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Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server

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Hi Dan,

Dan Purgert:
> Stephan Beck wrote:
>> Dan Purgert:
>>> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>>>> If I'm reading the above right, it looks like the server is offering an
>>>> rsa key to authenticate itself, but won't accept rsa to authenticate the
>>>> client. Which is a bit cheeky.
>>>
>>>> You may need a key created with a stronger method, such as ecdsa or
>>>> ed25519.
>>>
>>> Could even be as simple as he sent a /different/ key across (e.g. he
>>> sent "home-key.pub", which corresponds to "home-key_rsa" rather than
>>> "id_rsa").
>>>
>> No. I wrote that I /checked/ the public key copied to the server after
>> having copied it to the server's ~/.ssh directory. I edited it with a
>> text editor and compared it with the one I have in local ~/.ssh
> 
> 
> I think you misunderstood what I was saying.  I was supposing that you
> copied a valid (yet "incorrect") key to the remote server, or tried to
> authenticate with the wrong private key.

It was the correct and valid public key. It seems that the agent
actually is authenticating with the wrong private key. But, fair to say,
that's something you didn't mention in your first message.
> 
> For example, I have in my user's .ssh/ directory:
> 
> id_rsa -> symlink to home_lan_rsa
> VPS_id_rsa -> private key for uploading to a VPS
> home_lan_rsa -> private key for use on my LAN.
> 
> Assuming that I copied the right public key to the VPS, if I run the
> command "ssh me@vps", it'll fail, because ssh by default tries to
> authenticate with "id_rsa". _FIX:_ change the ssh command to "ssh -i
> .ssh/VPS_id_rsa me@vps"

Well, I only have one single pubkey on this local user "ssh" account I'm
talking about.

Cheers
Stephan

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Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 12:30 +0200
  Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 13:30 +0200
    Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 13:50 +0200
      Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:10 +0200
        Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 17:20 +0200
          Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 01:00 +0200
            Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 10:00 +0200
              OpenSSH security update? was Re: Issues with SSH pubkey  authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 11:10 +0200
  Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 13:30 +0200
    Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-26 14:10 +0200
      Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 17:10 +0200
        Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-09-26 17:40 +0200
          Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 10:30 +0200
    Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:00 +0200
    Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-26 17:10 +0200
      Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 17:20 +0200
        Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 00:40 +0200
        Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 13:10 +0200
          Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 15:20 +0200
            Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-27 17:10 +0200
              Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 20:40 +0200
                Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-28 10:50 +0200
                Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-28 11:20 +0200
                [SOLVED ]Re: Issues with SSH pubkey authentication at remote server Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-09-28 17:20 +0200

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