ssh authentication with key based access

[Yang Xiao]

On 5/20/05, Ankush Grover <ankush174 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey friends,
> 
> 
> I have configured FC3 .I want to do  key based access to the Server
> 
> What I have done is that
> 
> ssh-keygen -t dsa.
> 
> I imported the id_dsa.pub to the server .Then
> 
> cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys.
> 
> I have checked the permission for .ssh it is 700 and for
> authorized_keys it is 600.
> 
> 
> Under /etc/ssh/sshd_config it is can seen that the Authorizedfiles is
> authorized_keys.
> AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> I checked the log /var/log/secure but it seems there is no error in logs.
> 
> The logs are
> 
> May 20 16:12:16 mail sshd[6967]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4801 ssh2
> May 20 16:14:41 mail sshd[6998]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4804 ssh2
> May 20 16:22:21 mail sshd[7037]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4845 ssh2
> May 20 16:26:21 mail sshd[7071]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4861 ssh2
> May 20 16:30:34 mail sshd[7084]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4935 ssh2
> May 20 16:31:06 mail sshd[7113]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.55 port 35647 ssh2
> May 20 16:31:38 mail sshd[7147]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.55 port 35648 ssh2
> May 20 16:32:50 mail sshd[7179]: Accepted password for agrover from ::ffff:192.1
> 68.1.13 port 4994 ssh2
> 
> I have not changed anything in sshd_config under /etc/ssh.
> 
> Can anybody guide me what wrong steps I am following.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> 
> Ankush Grover
> 


First use the -v option when doing ssh
#ssh -v host

this will give you much more debug info, also, check the
/var/log/messages file for output as well.


Yang