[TriLUG] Im stumped by SSH

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 13:15, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Last Friday my SSH stopped working correctly.
> I have some scripts that move files, etc., to a Redhat 7.3 server from a
> Redhat 8.0 workstation.
> 
> Automated scripts stopped working and I noticed that when I try to SSH
> into the 7.3 server I am now prompted for a password.
> I suspect that once I resolve this my scripts will continue to work as
> expected.
> 
> I didn't notice any changes to any of the usual suspect files, so I
> decided to rebuild my SSH from scratch for this account.
> I restarted ssh on both systems.  I ran ssh-keygen on the workstation
> and copied the identity.pub up to the server where I cat'ed it to the
> authorized_keys file.
> At this point I expected to be able to ssh in without having to type a
> password... but it still prompts me for one.

Try running the ssh client in verbose mode (-vvv for the most verbose)
-- maybe that will tell you why the public key authentication is
failing.

I believe there's also a debug/verbose mode for the server if you can't
figure it out from the client side.

--Jeremy