Comments on “When SSH Public Key Authentication Fails”

When SSH Public Key Authentication Fails

2009-02-20T18:19:17-04:00

I’ve never used that option. I’m not so sure that I need that much security in this case, but it’s worth knowing. Thanks.

When SSH Public Key Authentication Fails

2009-02-20T13:16:06-04:00

You might consider going one step further and adding the “from=“ option to the key stored on the server. This will add a little bit of security by making the now-bearer-instrument key only work form the known source(s). Doesn’t work for mobile use of course, but useful for static hosts.

When SSH Public Key Authentication Fails

2009-02-11T08:55:09-04:00

Yep. I’d never bumped into it, but I recently changed my umask so that my Unix machines and Macs were the same (which I did to keep git from constantly complaining about diffs). Before then, it had always just worked so I never gave it a second thought. :-)

When SSH Public Key Authentication Fails

2009-02-11T06:25:36-04:00

When I first started with SSH keys I ran into this one as well. Unfortunately I couldn’t figure it out for months as I had nothing to compare to and there were just so many reasons SSH could be failing on Google ; ).