ssh public key authentication to different remote home directory

shawn_t · 03-20-2005, 02:43 PM

I am wondering if there is a way to notify ssh of the remote home directory?

Here is my situation. On my local machine, I am using cygwin and create the private and public keys using ssh-keygen. These keys are stored in:

Quote:

/home/bob/.ssh/id_dsa AND /home/bob/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

However, on the remote machine, the home directory for bob is set to: /home/ftp-users so I place my id_dsa.pub data in: /home/ftp-users/.ssh/authorized_users.

This is where the problem occurs. If I do:

ssh -vvv bob@remote.server

I get the following [partial] output:

Code:

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interacti
ve
debug1: Trying private key: /home/bob/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/bob/.ssh/id_dsa
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive

Is it trying to find the authorized_keys in /home/bob on the remote machine or do I just have something else wrong?

I think the problem occurs with the messages:

Code:

debug3: no such identity: /home/bob/.ssh/id_dsa
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method

Anyone have any other suggestions? Any way to see what the server is attempting during this process?

P.S. I am using the same versions of OpenSSH on both machines (3.6.1p1) and I am able to log in properly using the password. Furthermore, I have set up another PC using SSH Secure Shell and have got the public key authorization to work correctly with the same remote server setup.

odious1 · 03-20-2005, 03:27 PM

i would guess that something is not right in sshd.conf. post that and we can take a look.

tom

shawn_t · 03-20-2005, 03:39 PM

The only sshd.conf I have on my system is:

Code:

/etc/log.d/conf/services/sshd.conf

which reads:

Code:

###########################################################################
# $Id: sshd.conf,v 1.12 2002/10/12 02:08:09 kirk Exp $
###########################################################################

# You can put comments anywhere you want to.  They are effective for the
# rest of the line.

# this is in the format of <name> = <value>.  Whitespace at the beginning
# and end of the lines is removed.  Whitespace before and after the = sign
# is removed.  Everything is case *insensitive*.

# Yes = True  = On  = 1
# No  = False = Off = 0

Title = "SSHD"

# Which logfile group...
LogFile = secure
LogFile = messages

# Only give lines pertaining to the sshd service...
*OnlyService = sshd
*RemoveHeaders

########################################################
# This was written and is maintained by:
#    Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>
#
# Please send all comments, suggestions, bug reports,
#    etc, to kirk@kaybee.org.
########################################################

NOTE: I can connect to this server using public key authentication from another PC client so I'm assuming that the server is OK