Hi, On Fri, Jan 9, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Tim Rice wrote: > My ssh_config has > Host * > HostbasedAuthentication yes > EnableSSHKeysign yes > NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost yes > > NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost is not necessary. > The one you are missing is EnableSSHKeysign. > > Additionally, you made no mention of your ssh_known_hosts files. Make > sure the client's public keys are in the server's ssh_known_hosts file. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Iain Morgan wrote: > To begin with, don't complicate the situation by requiring two forms of > authentication before you've gotten a single form of authentication > working. In addition, root is too much of a special case for useful > debugging; try your tests as a regular user. > > As Tim Rice noted, you will need to set EnableSSHKeysign in the > system--wide client configuration for hostbased authentication to work > for non-root users. I edited configs to client ssh_config ... - PreferredAuthentications hostbased,publickey + PreferredAuthentications hostbased HostbasedAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes + PubkeyAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no ... EnableSSHKeysign yes (note: this had already been 'in there' --- just further down in the config) ... server sshd_config ... - AuthenticationMethods hostbased,publickey + AuthenticationMethods hostbased HostbasedAuthentication yes - HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly yes + #HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly yes - PubkeyAuthentication yes + PubkeyAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no ... I already have the server's key in the known hosts file on the client. @ client cat ssh_config ... GlobalKnownHostsFile /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts UserKnownHostsFile /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts ... ssh-keyscan -t ed25519 server.DOMAIN.COM >> /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and @server ssh-keyscan -t ed25519 client.DOMAIN.COM >> /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts with all of the above, the hostbased auth connnect still fails just as before, ssh server.DOMAIN.COM ... Permission denied (hostbased). _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev