Re: accessing a fedora box (latest fedora 35) from Windows using PuTTY/WinSCP only possible with userid/password

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 08:16, Walter H. via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

can someone please give me a hint, where to look for the following
problem ...

I have several Linux VMs (all except this one are CentOS), and I took
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys from one of them
and copied it onto this Fedora box;

accessing from my Jump-VM also directly using SSH from Win10 works fine
using the private key,
but from when using PuTTY/WinSCP I get: "Server refused our key."
(all other Linux-VMs use the same authorized_keys and can be accessed
using PuTTY/WinSCP with this private key)

is there something I must change on the side of the Fedora box or
something I have to change in PuTTY/WinSCP?
(I'm using the latest releases of PuTTY/WinSCP)

Many enterprise policies prohibit ssh access for root, but if you aren't

worried about security risks, look in /etc/sshsshd_conf's Authentication

section for "PermitRootLogin":

# Authentication:
#LoginGraceTime 2m
PermitRootLogin yes
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6
#MaxSessions 10

The alternative is to log in as a regular user and use one of the

elevation methods (sudo, su) to gain root privileges.

--

George N. White III

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