The following reply was made to PR bin/27821; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fen...@research.att.com> To: arc...@packetdesign.com Cc: free...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/27821: can't do RSA login via ssh to root account Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:14:32 -0700

I'm doing this with both RSA and DSA keys under stock FreeBSD 4.3 without a problem. The RSA public key is in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, the DSA public key is in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2, both my RSA and DSA keys are loaded in my ssh-agent, and root logins "just work".

mango% uname -a FreeBSD mango.attlabs.att.com 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #1: Wed Apr 18 10:33:41 PDT
2001 ro...@mango.attlabs.att.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MANGO i386 mango% ssh -v -l root cubix01 SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0 gre...@FreeBSD.org 20010321, protocol versions
1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL (0x0090600f). ... debug: Trying RSA authentication via agent with 'William C. Fenner' debug: Received RSA challenge from server. debug: Sending response to RSA challenge. debug: Remote: RSA authentication accepted. debug: RSA authentication accepted by server. ... Last login: Fri Jun 1 14:06:57 2001 from mango.attlabs.at Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (CUBIX) #1: Tue Apr 24 16:14:26 GMT 2001

This system is part of HA178's network lab. Please contact Bill Fenner <fen...@research.att.com> if you have any questions.

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cubix01# ...

mango% ssh -v -2 -l root cubix01 SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0 gre...@FreeBSD.org 20010321, protocol versions
1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL (0x0090600f). ... debug: authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug: next auth method to try is publickey debug: trying DSA agent key /home/fenner/.ssh/id_dsa-cubix debug: ssh-userauth2 successfull: method publickey ... Last login: Fri Jun 1 14:09:12 2001 from mango.attlabs.at Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (CUBIX) #1: Tue Apr 24 16:14:26 GMT 2001

This system is part of HA178's network lab. Please contact Bill Fenner <fen...@research.att.com> if you have any questions.

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cubix01#

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