ssh and dsa keys

[Art Edwards]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Damon Cassell wrote:
> 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

There is no /var/log/secure

I'm duplicating this, and will post in the next message. 

Thanks for replying.

Art Edwards

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