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Re: decoding sshd failure


At 06:38 AM 6/4/2004, you wrote:
>On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:18, Larry Hall wrote:
>> At 10:13 PM 6/3/2004, you wrote:
>> >Below is a fragment of output from sshd -d -d -d
>> >
>> >Can someone tell me why it doesn't like my publickey?  I think I've done
>> > everything right, but no joy.  I can login using the password just fine.
>> > Thanks.
>> >David
>> >
>> >debug1: userauth-request for user dcorbin service ssh-connection method
>> > publickey debug1: attempt 1 failures 1
>> >debug2: input_userauth_request: try method publickey
>> >debug1: test whether pkalg/pkblob are acceptable
>> >debug3: mm_key_allowed entering
>> >debug3: mm_request_send entering: type 20
>> >debug3: monitor_read: checking request 20
>> >debug3: mm_answer_keyallowed entering
>> >debug3: mm_answer_keyallowed: key_from_blob: 0x100ecb30
>> >debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 11141/10513 (e=18/544)
>> >debug1: trying public key file /home/dcorbin/.ssh/authorized_keys
>> >debug3: mm_key_allowed: waiting for MONITOR_ANS_KEYALLOWED
>> >debug3: mm_request_receive_expect entering: type 21
>> >debug3: mm_request_receive entering
>> >debug1: restore_uid: (unprivileged)
>> >debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 11141/10513 (e=18/544)
>> >debug1: trying public key file /home/dcorbin/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>> >debug1: restore_uid: (unprivileged)
>> >debug3: mm_answer_keyallowed: key 0x100ecb30 is disallowed
>> >debug3: mm_request_send entering: type 21
>> >debug2: userauth_pubkey: authenticated 0 pkalg ssh-dss
>> >Failed publickey for dcorbin from 172.16.5.102 port 1697 ssh2
>>
>> I can't tell from this.  Yours and my output diverge after the line in
>>
>> your file reading:
>> >debug1: trying public key file /home/dcorbin/.ssh/authorized_keys
>>
>> Mine goes on with:
>>
>> debug3: secure_filename: checking '/users/lhall/.ssh'
>> debug3: secure_filename: checking '/users/lhall'
>> debug3: secure_filename: terminating check at '/users/lhall'
>>
>> Given that yours is "waiting", my WAG is that your home is not local.
>> Things may also be complicated by the fact that your user is a domain
>> user.  That's pretty tenuous but I don't have access to a domain
>> environment at the moment so I can't try it for myself.  You might
>> want to try logging in as a local user though.  But if you're home
>> directory is a UNC share that requires password authentication, that's
>> going to be your real problem.  Otherwise, you must have some permissions
>> problem.  Your best bet is to grab the source and track where the "waiting"
>> message is that you get.  That should help provide some context.
>>
>
>Thanks.  My home directory is NOT a UNC share, though the user is a domain 
>user as your surmised (somehow).   


Magic. ;-)  Local user IDs are less than 10000.



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