Re: SSH madness

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not much information here. About all you've told us is "it doesn't work" 
and "from a Mac".  But, I use a key generated on my Mac all day long and 
can log in via SSH without any problems.

Is it possible that you generated the wrong type of key?

Or that the authorities are wrong?



On 8/16/2017 4:59 PM, Matt Lavinder wrote:
> We are trying to give a new employee access to the PASE/Bash command shell
> via Terminal. I have added his Mac’s RSA key to the authorized_keys file,
> but it still will not let them connect.  It will let them connect with a
> password, but that is not what we want.
>
> For the life of me, I cannot figure out what is different between the way
> they are configured and I am.  This all works for me when using my key and
> my profile.  If I add my Mac's key to their authorized_keys file, it will
> not let me connect either (yes, I used their user name).
>
> I have a lot more system authorities than the new employee does, but I
> can’t imagine why that would be the issue.
>
> Is there a specific authority a user needs to be able to communicate with
> the SSHD?
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas?