Compatibility issue: OpenSSH v2.3.0p1 vs. 3.0.2: RSA keys

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:42:38AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Password login worked fine, but a password for an existing and 
> configured RSA1 key was never asked, the key never tried. It always 
> fell back to plain password authentication.
> 
> After fiddling with the client configuration without success, I found 
> out that using "ssh -1" made the client succeed.

RSA1 keys won't be used on "-2" connections, they're protocol 1 only.

So without "-1" you effectively do not *have* a key, and thus ssh won't
ask you for a password.

gert
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