[lug] desperate newbie dealing with authentication

[Hugh Brown]

I have had good luck with Putty.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Of course I have had better luch with the ssh client from openssh :)

You could also try using the cygwin tools on windows.

Hugh


"Anne George"
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> I just have one last piece of the OpenSSH puzzle that I cannot figure out.
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> SecureCRT pops up an error that says invalid username public/privatekey
> pair, after I Accept the public key from the server.  It then prompts me for
> a .pub file & username, but still fails.
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> The server is OpenSSH on Linux RH 6.2 (latest version) & the client is
> SecureCRT on Windows 98.
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> SecureFX works from the client.  It prompts me to accept a key, username,
> pw, and then I'm in.
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> I've install OpenSSH, the sshd is running, ran the keygen to create the host
> key files (RSA, DSA, etc.)
> Copied my client ,pub keys over and added them to the authorization_keys2
> file, verified that the file contains keys.
> Stopped/Restarted/rebooted many times, deleted & recreated server keys & the
> authorization file.
> Tried creating/using root & different user account logins when starting the
> server
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> With SecureCRT...
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> Password validation works, but my goal is to start/stop the http server
> remotely, and I don't have permissions with the pw validation.
> Tried various combinations of the Session configuration including key
> creation with RSA & DSA.
> Autodetect & Standard authorization check
> I've tried using the username from the remote login machine, the 98 machine,
> a bogus name, root, & blank.
> Tried adding both the .pub and the identity file in the session
> configuration, just to see if I could get a different error.
> Tried using the public key from the SecureFX setup.
> 
> The Van-dyke documentation is really lame, almost no information in dealing
> with the login process.
> 
> Is this a client or server issue, both?  I've scoured the web, but can't
> find a bug report even similiar to this problem!
> What am I missing in the configuration!??!!
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