Sorry, I'm thinking Fedora. Try /var/log/auth.log for Ubuntu. On the side you are trying to ssh INTO. Damon <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Art Edwards <<a href="mailto:edwardsa@icantbelieveimdoingthis.com" target="_blank">edwardsa@icantbelieveimdoingthis.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Damon Cassell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Avi Greenbury <<a href="mailto:lists@avi.co">lists@avi.co</a>> 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@host > > > > will give you more details as to how its trying to connect, > > > > ssh -vv user@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 </div></div>There is no /var/log/secure I'm duplicating this, and will post in the next message. Thanks for replying. Art Edwards <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>