[SunHELP] F-Secure client talking to OpenSSH server

[velociraptor]

On 5/30/06, Marek Grinberg <marek.grinberg at tele2.se> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to let one server running Solaris 5.6 and F-Secure SSH 3.0.1
> transfer files to another server running OpenSSH 4.3p1 using sftp.
> I have put the public key from the client into the server's $HOME/.ssh
> directory, but OpenSSH does not recognize it:
> debug: server offers auth methods
> 'publickey,password,keyboard-interactive'.
> debug: Ssh2AuthClient/sshauthc.c:316/ssh_authc_completion_proc: Method
> 'publickey' disabled.
> debug: server offers auth methods
> 'publickey,password,keyboard-interactive'.
> debug: Ssh2AuthPasswdClient/authc-passwd.c:113/ssh_client_auth_passwd:
> In Batchmode, so we're not asking the user for password.
> debug: Ssh2AuthClient/sshauthc.c:316/ssh_authc_completion_proc: Method
> 'password' disabled.
> debug: server offers auth methods
> 'publickey,password,keyboard-interactive'.
> debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:137/ssh_common_disconnect: DISCONNECT
> received: No further authentication methods available.
>
> Any hints ?

With sftp you have to use the "-o" option to pass ssh the path to the
public key; sftp itself doesn't implement public key login.  Check
your sftp's client options.  (Just resolved a similar issue with
compatriots in my own workplace who are using an sftp client for
Windows.)

=Nadine=