ssh public key authentication problem using curl

Thu Nov 3 23:09:00 GMT 2011

On Tue, 2011年11月01日 at 15:24 -0500, carolus wrote:
> After setup with ssh-host-config, ssh-user-config, and ssh-copy-id, 
> public key authentication works with ssh but fails with curl. (Password 
> authentication works with curl -u, but is less convenient.)
>> curl -v shows:
>> SSH authentication methods available: 
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> Using ssh public key file /home/cdr/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
> Using ssh private key file /home/cdr/.ssh/id_dsa
> SSH public key authentication failed: Username/PublicKey combination 
> invalid
> Authentication failure
>> However, ssh authenticates OK using RSA. ssh -v shows:
>> Next authentication method: publickey
> Offering public key: /home/cdr/.ssh/id_rsa
> Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
> read PEM private key done: type RSA
> Authentication succeeded (publickey).

Look at the output: You're using the wrong keys with the curl command.
Yaakov
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