Problem with ssh public key authentication

[CJBe]

Hello!

I'm trying to connect between two openVMS System via ssh public key authentication. When I try to connect from an openVMS System, I got the message:

warning: ssh2/ id_dsa_2048_a.: 4: parsing line failed
warning: ssh2/ id_dsa_2048_a.: 5: parsing line failed
warning: ssh2/ id_dsa_2048_a.: 6: parsing line failed
...

When I try to connect from a windows based PC it works fine.

I used openVMS to generate the keys and the command I use to connect is:

ssh user@system -i ID_DSA_2048_A.

Does anybody know about this, or what I'm doing wrong???

Thanks a lot.

[marsh_1]

hi,

how did you transfer your public key ? looks like the formats got a bit skewed.

fwiw

[CJBe]

On the openVMS System where I generated the keys I got the error, on the windows system where I copied the keys via FTP is everything okay.

I tried to connect to the machine where I started to keep the thing simple. So I connected to user@127.0.0.1 - but I got the warnings.

After the warnings I got the prompt to login as the user setup in the ssh command.

[Thomas Ritter · Accepted solution]

On the server side in the [.ssh2] subdirectory you will need an authorization. file and the public key and on the client side in [.ssh2] you will need an identication. file and the private key.

Then

usr@system

[CJBe]

okay, thats strange... but it works!

I got the identification. file allready, but I always used the -i qualifier to set up the keyfile in the ssh command so known from unix etc.

Then thank you very much!

[CJBe]

Thank you very much...