hostbased failing and can't derive reason of failure in debugging output

[Tim Rice]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Marc Owen wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've troubles getting the hostbased method to work. I've given up on
> system-to-system for now (different versions), and I'm just trying to
> debug localhost. As far as I can see, the key is accepted, but then a
> sudden "Failed hostbased" is returned:
> 
[snip]
> Some basic configuration info:
> 
> ssh_config (stripped):
> Host hostname.domainname.tld
>   PreferredAuthentications hostbased,publickey,password
>   HostbasedAuthentication yes
>   GlobalKnownHostsFile /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2
>   CheckHostIP yes
>   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
>   Protocol 2
[snip]

Add this to the end of your ssh_config

Host *
  EnableSSHKeysign yes


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