Make sure your .ssh directory is chown'd 700 and your identity.pub is
chowned 600 (or vise versa). That's what kept me from using RSA instead of
the password.
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael d. ivey" ">ivey@gweezlebur.com>
To: ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] OpenSSH: More Than I Can Chew?
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:16:16AM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I've gotten to the point where the "server" is running sshd, but when I
go
> > to the client and go "ssh ", I'm asked for a password
but
> > when I enter it, I get "Permission denied, please try again." I know
the
> > account and password are valid on the server (I can telnet in if I
want).
> > Is there something, perhaps some kind of key exchange, that I've missed?
>
> try "ssh -v" to make it tell you what's happening.
>
> FWIW, i just installed debian packages of ssh and sshd, and it worked
> automagically.
>
> > the first time I tried this, I got a dialog having to do with
> > authentication of the machines in which it asked me if I still
> > wanted to connect. After typing "yes," it added the IP to the list
> > of "known hosts."
>
> this is normal.
>
> feel free to get in touch privately, or on list, to further debug it.
> let me know what ssh -v says...
>
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