need help with key generation

Pollywog linux at shadypond.com
Thu Sep 30 04:22:38 WST 2004


On 09/29/2004 08:01 pm, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

> Yesterday I played a bit with setup to authorize using keys. Zaurus use
> dropbear 0.44test4, desktop use openssh 3.8.1p1.
>
> On Zaurus I used "dropbearkey -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa" to generate key.
> Then "dropbearkey -y -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa" and copied publickey to desktop
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Desktop id_rsa.pub is added to
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on Zaurus.

I did the same.
>
> This allow me to login from desktop to Zaurus via simple "ssh user at zaurus"
> and from Zaurus to desktop via "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user at desktop".

I have no problem logging into the Zaurus, but I can't login to the desktop 
from the Zaurus, I get this:

ssh: connection to lilypad:22 exited: No auth methods could be used.
Also, the Zaurus never asked for a passphrase when I created the key.
I am so confused.


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