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

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Tim Rice wrote:

> 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
>

also ensure that SSH-keysign is also setuid root.

- Ben