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Debugging Weird sshd Connection Problems + What Happens When You Stop sshd
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 15th, 2008 in Linux
So the other day I was setting up public key authentication for one of my users, which is usually very straightforward: generate a private/public key pair, stick the private key into user's .ssh dir, set dir permissions to 0700, private key permissions to 0600, stick the public key into the authorized_keys file on the server, and the job's done. However, this time, no matter what I was doing, the public key was being rejected or ignored and the system was moving on to the keyboard-interactive authentication.
Debugging on the client side with -v didn't help much:
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artem@DeathStar:~/svn/b2/Fetch/LinkChecker> ssh -v |
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