ssh and dsa keys

[Damon Cassell]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> Art Edwards wrote:
> > My front end machine is ignoring my dsa key on the first login attempt.
> That is,
> > The first time I attempt to login, it requires a password. Once I am
> logged in,
> > all succeeding attempts access the dsa key. I'm running 12.04.2, and all
> ssh
> > traffic is on internal networks.
>
> Are these successive attempts using the key, or are they using a
> shared socket; how are you determining that they are using the key?
>
> You can use the -v flag to the SSH client to get more details, more vs
> give more details:
>
>     ssh -v user at host
>
> will give you more details as to how its trying to connect,
>
>     ssh -vv user at host
>
> will elaborate on reasons for failure. Could you reply with the
> outputs of those commands if they're not particularly enlightening for
> you, please?
>
> --
> Avi
>
>
The above suggestion(s) will probably lead you there but, also see what
might be reported in /var/log/secure when this happens?

Damon
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