FC4 and ssh passphrases not working

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
> I updated a few of my servers recently with yum. After I did that,
> my automated rsyncs to servers stopped working. The updated
> servers are refusing the publickeys I've used for months and months.
[...]
> Aug 18 08:35:14 mail sshd[25419]: Parsing authorization file 
> /root/.ssh2/authorization resulted in error (user root tried to 
> authenticate)
[...]
> The version of sshd on the remote server is
> "SSH Secure Shell SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.8p1 Debian 1:3.8p1-3 (non-commercial 
> version) on i686-pc-linux-gnu".
> What confuses me is why it says Debian. I use the out of the box yum 
> configuration so everything
> should be for a FC4 configuration.

Are you positive you are connecting to the machine you think you are? Since
you show a log message from the remote machine, presumably you can connect
with some other form of authentication, yeah? What do you get if you do "rpm
-q openssh" on that machine?

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