ssh permission denied in i3

asked 2014-08-12 21:49:27 +0000

jatcheson
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sshd and ssh-agent are running.

ssh works fine when running from regular desktop (Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon) and public/private keys are in ~/.ssh, but when trying to connect under i3, I get Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

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This probably has nothing to do with i3 anyway.

cee ( 2014-08-13 06:27:49 +0000 )edit

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answered 2014-08-13 06:26:16 +0000

cee

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What permissions do you have in ~/.ssh? It should be:

drwx------ (700) for ~/.ssh

-rw------- (600) for private keys

-rw-r--r-- (644) for public keys

What exactly are you trying? Connecting from i3 to another Device, or vice-versa?

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The permissions match what I have. I am trying to connect from i3 to another Device (`gnome-keyring-d` also appears to be running).

jatcheson ( 2014-08-13 07:57:28 +0000 )edit

Okay, I found the solution. I had given my keys specific names (such as `mycomputer-key` and `mycomputer-key.pub`) instead of default `id_rsa` and `id_rsa.pub`. Renaming just the private key to `id_rsa` I am now permitted to connect.

jatcheson ( 2014-08-13 08:05:00 +0000 )edit

In case of keys with non-standard names you can use `ssh-add` to make them known to the `ssh-agent`: `ssh-add mycomputer-key`. In fact, I use this line to add all of my keys: `for k in ~/.ssh/*.pub; do ssh-add "${k%.pub}"; done`.

Adaephon ( 2014-08-13 15:29:26 +0000 )edit

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ssh permission denied in i3

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