having some trouble using another user's RSA/DSA keys

[Jarno Huuskonen]

On Tue, Nov 14, Jim Breton wrote:
> Thanks.  :)  I am now running OpenSSH-2.3.0 and authenticating against
> an ssh.com server, however I believe there is some problem with the
> OpenSSH client code.  The problem of the unnecessary warnings seems to
> have gone away with this release, but I still am unable to use someone
> else's key for authentication.
> 
> If I use the following command line:
> 
> root at tarkin:~# ssh -v -2 -l jamesb -i /home/jamesb/.ssh/id_dsa remotehost
> 
> I would expect root to connect to "remotehost," as userid "jamesb,"
> using jamesb's id_dsa key.

AFAIK the -i option works only for protocol 1 (it says rsa-keys in ssh 
man page).

I think as a workaround you could use 
-o "IdentityFile2 /home/jamesb/.ssh/id_dsa"

(Hmm, after testing ssh complains that the id_dsa has bad ownership or
bad mode(0600)...)

-Jarno

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