What is hapening is that it's rejecting your key so it won't let to use r
type login so it falls back and requests a password for authentication
because a password is still theoretically more secure than a key on a disk
that is easier to copy than reading your mind if you use good passwords and
don't write them down.
-Joe
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:05 pm, you wrote:
> Here is a mystery, at least to me.
> My firewall machine, moshe, is running RH7.2 updated.
> All the remote services are disabled and iptables accepts packets
> for port 222 so I can remotely connect with ssh.
> The sshd service, openssh server 3.1, is running.
> I want to connect from a Windows box elsewhere on the internet.
> I have been using putty (1/14/2002) and WinSCP 2.0beta.
> Using sneaker-net with the diskette to install the keys in the linux
> users ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, then I try to connect.
>
> Using the keys generated by putty-gen, then I get a message from
> logining in that the key is rejected and a prompt for a password,
> not the prompt for the key passphrase. AND then it lets me login.
> WHAT IS HAPPENING?
> TIA !! Larry :-)
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