ssh and dsa keys

[Damon Cassell]

Sorry, I'm thinking Fedora. Try /var/log/auth.log for Ubuntu. On the side
you are trying to ssh INTO.

Damon


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Art Edwards <
edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:

> 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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