Re: [webmin-l] problem with ssh key

[David D. <da...@en...>]

and...@fr... wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to create a public-private key for authentication via ssh,
> usable by putty os pscp
> 
> I read a lot of docs, anyway I was not able to succed in doing this.
> 
> I think the problem is that I am trying to create an SSH-2 key, using
> puttygen. I copied my public key in
> the /root/.ssh2 directory, I created the "authorization" file containing
> the key entry pointing to my .pub file in the same directory

Is your server running OpenSSH (sshd) or SSH2 (sshd2)? The location & 
format of the public key is different. Note this is *not* the same as 
SSH protocol 1 & 2. Both OpenSSH & SSH2 will talk protocol 1 & 2 quite 
happily.

> Nope, the server always answer:
> 
> "Server refused our key"
> 
> I tried to configure a new user, before having configured webmin to
> automatically create rsa key pair:
> My Idea was "to spy" what webmin did
> 
> I discoverd webmin creates a .ssh dir (not .ssh2) with the key pair and
> without any authorization file

Webmin is creating the keys for OpenSSH.

> I configured ssh server to use ONLY ssh-2 protocol
> 
> what can I try to do ?

Double check what version of SSH your server is running & then you 
should be able to work out where & how to setup your keys. Also make 
sure the key & directory on the server aren't world writeable and are 
owned by the right user.
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David Derrick
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