auto login failure: PEM_read_PrivateKey

[Darren Tucker]

Bill Rees wrote:
>     Can anyone tell me what the following message implies?  What does 
> PEM_read_PrivateKey do and why would it fail?
>     This is the result of trying to setup ssh for autologin.  Though I 
> follow the man page, it doesn't work.
> 
>         debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed

THis means that attempting to read the private key 
/home/breeze/.ssh/id_dsa for some reason.  Potential reasons are:

a) corrupt private key file.  Try regenerating it with ssh-keygen.

b) openssl build problems.  Did OpenSSL's "make test" pass?

What platform and compiler are you using?

You can test if OpenSSL can read the keys with something like:
$ openssl dsa -in ~/.ssh/id_dsa -noout

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