X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: carolus Subject: ssh public key authentication problem using curl Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:24:10 -0500 Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com After setup with ssh-host-config, ssh-user-config, and ssh-copy-id, public key authentication works with ssh but fails with curl. (Password authentication works with curl -u, but is less convenient.) curl -v shows: SSH authentication methods available: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive Using ssh public key file /home/cdr/.ssh/id_dsa.pub Using ssh private key file /home/cdr/.ssh/id_dsa SSH public key authentication failed: Username/PublicKey combination invalid Authentication failure However, ssh authenticates OK using RSA. ssh -v shows: Next authentication method: publickey Offering public key: /home/cdr/.ssh/id_rsa Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279 read PEM private key done: type RSA Authentication succeeded (publickey). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple