Re: [Fab-user] Strange behaviour with key based SSH login

[Jeff Forcier]

You may also be seeing a permutation of this issue:

    
http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.6/faq.html#i-m-sometimes-incorrectly-asked-for-a-passphrase-instead-of-a-password

in which case you might try using your key's passphrase to see if it's
erroneously prompting for that instead.

Alternately, activate logging (in fabfile module level, 'import
logging; logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)' or similar) and see
what Paramiko is saying about key exchange. You may only have ECDSA
keys available from the server, which Paramiko doesn't support yet (in
progress) or some other sort of cipher disagreement / mismatch.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Todd DeLuca <address@hidden> wrote:
> It might help to understand your situation better if you included the
> commands you are running and verbose output.
>
> That being said, a surprising number of ssh problems for me have arisen from
> file and directory permissions that ssh does not "like".  Check if your
> permissions (on local and remote hosts) are agreeable.  Here is an example
> of how I set my permissions to ssh into localhost:
>
>     chmod 755 ~
>     chmod 700 ~/.ssh
>     chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_dsa
>     chmod 644 ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
>     chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> Regards,
> Todd
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:20 AM, SL <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm seeing some strange behaviour with key based SSH login, wonder if
>> anybody can offer some advice
>> Have passwordless SSH, with key auth but am seeing ['my remote server]
>> Login password for myuser:
>>
>> I don't understand this, because if I ssh myself into this box without a
>> key, then I'm immediately disconnected. It also wont accept any password and
>> just keeps repeatedly asking.
>>
>> I'm on a non standard port, but am setting this through env.port (and I
>> think this is working on).
>>
>> Any ideas on what the problem might be?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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