Re: [Savannah-users] accessing git.sv machine

[Phillip Lord]

Okay, solved the problem. You are correct, I had different id_rsa keys
on the two machines (I thought that they were synced, between my
machines, but there are not, which is probably a good thing as it
happens).

I thought I might have got my pairs mixed up (so I had an unmatched
public/private pair), but that wasn't true. The, for me, unexpected
thing was that I *had* checked my public key against the only on
savannah on my work machine; and, indeed, they were the same, for the
first 60 or so characters. Rather a surprise to me; I assumed that
public keys were (effectively) random, and checking the start should
have been enough.

Anyway, all fixed now. Sorry for the time waste, and many thanks!

Phil


Bob Proulx <address@hidden> writes:
>> Next line is here (on the machine that works)
>> 
>> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
>> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
>> debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/phillord/.ssh/id_rsa
>> debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
>> debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
>> Authenticated to git.sv.gnu.org ([140.186.70.72]:22).
>> 
>> or here where it doesn't.
>> 
>> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
>> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
>> debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/phillord/.ssh/id_rsa
>> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
>> debug1: Offering DSA public key: /home/phillord/.ssh/id_dsa
>> 
>> Not that informative, I fear.
>
> Informative enough.  This leads me to believe that those keys are
> actually different.  You have one ssh key installed for access.  Try
> comparing the fingerprints of those two keys.  Or the literal
> checksums of them.
>
>   ssh-add -l
>   ssh-add -L
>   md5sum /home/phillord/.ssh/id_rsa
>
> Try comparing the fingerprint of those files on the two machines.  I
> suspect they are actually different.  I suspect that the one at home
> is okay but the one at work is different and that is why it isn't
> being allowed.
>
> Note that it is supported to have multiple ssh keys in the authorized
> key list.  You have one key installed.
>
> Bob
>
>

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