Northward Midget

Author: Quinn

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  • ssh asking for password when it shouldn’t

    After a recent Ubuntu upgrade, one of my frequented remote servers stopped accepting my public key and was prompting me for my password.  The password is gross and unwieldy and I was most put-out, I must say.  So, I googled the title of this post.  Mostly suggestions to check the permissions of various files.  All of mine were locked tight to user-only, including my home directory.

    Of course, I’d already tried ssh -vvv to get all the debugging output.  Unfortunately, I zoomed in on the following message:

    debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method

    Instead of this one a little further up:

    debug1: Skipping ssh-dss key /home/ME/.ssh/keyfiles/ME.key - not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes

    Rather than add ssh-dss to the supported types, I just created a new key with ssh-keygen.   An ssh-copy-id later, everything worked.

    … except when it didn’t.  Adding the following to ~/.ssh/config</tt for the offending host worked:

    Host refuses-my-agent-keys.jerkass.com
    PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss

  • Pun-Pun

    Image of a small dog-like humanoid creature wielding a shield and sword with the caption "PUN PUN: The game is over. I am the DM now."
    Unknown artist’s rendering of Pun-Pun.

     

    Cleverly twisted manipulation of D&D 3.5E rules to create the godlike kobold “Pun-Pun”.

    Source: Pun-Pun (3.5e Optimized Character Build) – D&D Wiki