From skilover at bluebottle.com  Mon Oct 16 11:33:48 2006
From: skilover at bluebottle.com (Chuck)
Date: Mon Oct 16 11:33:58 2006
Subject: [pssh-users] Trouble connecting to server using pubkey
	authentication
Message-ID: <4533A65C.8050900@bluebottle.com>

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Hi all. I'm new to this list so please forgive me if this has already
been asked before but I have not found a way to search the archives.

I've just installed the 2005-06-23 version of pssh on my Treo 650. I
also installed an unencrypted (shuddering) copy of my public key and
imported via the memo method as described. When I try to connect to a
my home server which is set up to only allow pubkey authentication, I
get the following messages and the connection closes before I ever get
a terminal session.

Logging in to host 'myhostname'
  Authenticating (none) failed ... failed
  Authenticating (publickey) ...
Connection Closed

Can anyone tell me what's going wrong? I can use the same key to log
in to the server with cygwin OpenSSH or Putty from my laptop. Just
can't get in with pssh. I'm using an RSA keypair. The only
authentication method allowed on the server is pubkey and that's also
the only authentication method I have enabled in pssh's connection
settings. If I enable anything else I don't even get as far as above.
I just get to "authentication (none) ... failed" and it closes the
connection right away. What am I doing wrong?

BTW you should probably change the menu option from "public keys" to
private keys as that is what the client stores and uses for
authentication.

TIA


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