Re: [Savannah-help-public] Can't access CVS - Permission denied (publickey)

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

You copy/pasted your public key with several newlines inside the text
of the public key. Check your account settings and upload it as a single-line.

Cheers,

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:50:08PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> I'm a groff developer with a long-standing account at Savannah.
> 
> Yesterday, while trying to checkout the groff sources, I received,
> for the first time, the following:
> 
>     Permission denied (publickey).
>     cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
> if any)
> 
> I understand that this is an ssh problem, but none of the
> recommendations for overcoming it have had any effect.  I generated
> a new public key with
> 
>     ssh-keygen -t dsa
> 
> and listed it in my account; 24 hours later, I am still unable to
> gain access to the repository.
> 
> The only change I've made on my side since my last successful
> checkout is that I've upgraded my openssh-client (Debian) to verion
> 1:4.7p1-2.
> 
> Here's the output from:
> 
>     cvs -t -d:ext:address@hidden/cvsroot/groff co groff
> 
> -----begin output-----
> -> main: Session ID is r6wQROxYNC4HqrOs
>   -> main loop with CVSROOT=/cvsroot/groff
>   -> safe_location( where=(null) )
>   -> open_connection_to_server
> (:ext:address@hidden/cvsroot/groff)
>  -> Starting server: ssh -l PTPi cvs.savannah.gnu.org cvs server
> Permission denied (publickey).
> cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above
> messages if any)
> ------end output------
> 
> And here's the output from
> 
>     ssh -v address@hidden
> 
> -----begin output-----
> OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to cvs.savannah.gnu.org [199.232.41.69] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/peter/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/peter/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/peter/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
> debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3p2 
> Debian-9
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9 pat OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-2
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
> debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
> debug1: Host 'cvs.savannah.gnu.org' is known and matches the RSA host key.
> debug1: Found key in /home/peter/.ssh/known_hosts:1
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Offering public key: /home/peter/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/peter/.ssh/identity
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/peter/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: Offering public key: /home/peter/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
> debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
> Permission denied (publickey).
> ------end output------
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Schaffter
>