[Fink-users] OpenSSH question

[Paul F. <pau...@ai...>]

A few weeks or so ago, I remember installing openssh via fink on my  
macbook pro (15 Al unibody).  Using ssh to connect to other machines  
worked fine, however, I found that I could not ssh in to my machine  
anymore.  After scratching my head for a while, I gave up and removed  
the openssh package via the fink remove command and find that I still  
cannot log in to my laptop machine even using localhost.  What is odd  
about this is that I am unable to login via ssh to localhost even when  
I copy the .ssh directory from my desktop which works fine  
(permissions are fine as well).  The file /etc/sshd_config is also the  
default file.  There are no errors showing up in /var/secure.log.  The  
console just shows that ssh tries to check a public key and apparently  
gets now answer.  Might anyone have clue as to what is going on?  I am  
fine to use the fink openssh as well, but I thought it would be best  
to get things working first.


It seems that we send a pubkey and wait for reply, but it never comes.

ssh -vvv paulfons@localhost

bunch of text


debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug2: key: /Users/paulfons/.ssh/id_dsa (0x107f50)
debug2: key: /Users/paulfons/.ssh/identity (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/paulfons/.ssh/id_rsa (0x0)
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /Users/paulfons/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey

Here it fails as I only have a single dsa key in the folder.  The  
access for .ssh is set for 700 and for authorized_keys to 600 whilst  
the rest are set to 700.  I am

~/.ssh $ls -lte
total 40
-rw-------  1 paulfons  staff   745 Mar 30 22:12 config
-rw-------  1 paulfons  staff  1131 Mar 30 21:13 authorized_keys
-rw-------  1 paulfons  staff  1131 Mar 30 21:13 id_dsa.pub
-rw-------  1 paulfons  staff  1264 Mar 30 21:13 id_dsa
-rw-------  1 paulfons  staff  2160 Mar 30 08:57 known_hosts

The /etc/sshd_config file is pretty much standard with just a few  
changes (e.g. turn off passwords and disable root login).


#LoginGraceTime 2m
PermitRootLogin no

#RSAAuthentication yes
#PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile	.ssh/authorized_keys
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no
#PermitEmptyPasswords no