ssh_exchange_identification [RESOLVED for me]

[Simon Liddington]

Oops, found my problem I should have been specifyingf id_dsa not
id_dsa.pub as the identity file. However there's still the bug(let) about
carry on when reading fails.

Still this doesn't explain the original post on this thread

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Simon Liddington wrote:

> This is a me too:
>
> I upgraded from openssh-2.3.0p1 to openssh-2.5.2p2 and found similar
> problems to Tim. I then upgraded to  openssh-2.9p1 and it still
> happened. I even upgraded from openssl-0.9.6 to openssl-0.9.6a and it
> still happened to I got my shovel out and started digging. I changed
> the code to give the error details and got this:
>
> debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
> debug1: try pubkey: /export/home1/sl/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
> debug1: input_userauth_pk_ok: pkalg ssh-dss blen 433 lastkey 1271b0 hint 0
>
> debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed: error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
>
> debug1: read PEM private key done: type <unknown>
> Enter passphrase for key '/export/home1/sl/.ssh/id_dsa.pub':
>
> I think there are two bugs here firstly it's failing to read the
> private key for some reason and secondly it seems to carry on regardless
> and ask for a passphrase.



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