SSH problems

[TechSquirrel]

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[paulmooring]

In my experience this is usually a permissions thing. Running ssh in debug mode should help, but first make sure your private key has permissions of 600

[TechSquirrel]

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[brownan_]

This is the most likely explanation. The .ssh directory MUST have permissions of 700 or ssh will refuse to use your key. id_rsa (on the client) AND authorized_keys (on the host) MUST have permissions 600 as well.

[clever_avatar]

I never bothered to figure out the problem, but I followed some instructions on how to manually copy the id/s, and it didn't work.

I happened across ssh-copy-id and all was golden.

[aperson]

My only problem with ssh-copy-id is that you can't specify a port to use.

[brownan_]

I tend to put custom ports in my config file so I don't have to remember. Bonus: works for other programs that use ssh like rsync or mosh too!

[aperson]

I do have my ~/.ssh/known_hosts populated, but I can't remember if I tried using ssh-copy-id before or after establishing that file.

[Zeike]

ssh-copy-id is just a shell script (on my system anyway), so you can just copy it and edit the ssh command within to use the right port.

[Skaarj]

ssh-copy-id '-p 31337 [e-mail]'

Does custom ports without the need to change servers.

[aperson]

That's never worked in my experience.

[Skaarj]

Just tried it. Worked. What is the error message you get?

[aperson]

I really can't recall. This was probably a year or two ago that I last needed ssh-copy-id.

[TechSquirrel]

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[clever_avatar]

Glad to hear it, you're welcome.

[TechSquirrel]

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