[Dirvish] Setting up new backup

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, wes wrote:

> Ok, try ssh -vi /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 localhost

Wes,

This is very interesting:

# ssh -vi id_ed25519 localhost 
OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2t  10 Sep 2019
debug1: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port <redacted>.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
debug1: identity file id_ed25519 type 4
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type 4
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.4
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.4 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug1: Authenticating to localhost:14982 as 'root'
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:/RInRdtcIMbpPu3LZmpg5wfAWi9ozQwgKLPnTQEDcxg
debug1: Host '[localhost]:<redacted>' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:3
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering ED25519 public key: id_ed25519
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Offering ED25519 public key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).

I wonder why it cannot find id_ed5519.pub when it tries to key_load_public,
but then seems to find and accept it.

Rich