quite OT

Thu Sep 6 03:40:41 UTC 2018

Hi All

> What is the difference between what this server says in the logs,
> and what the previous server says in the logs?

In my growing frustration I was quite rude to Jan. Humble appologies.

I was able to do password-less login to another High Sierra machine exactly as you would expect !!!

My only hint on my desktop machine is this

system.log:Sep  6 10:09:27 haycorn com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd.D2A41AA4-87E8-4832-8745-93B2D3AD3796[580]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255

As promised I’ll stop abusing the list, port openssh behaves exactly as the built in server.

Aa a final resort I may end up doing a re-install, with time machine to hold my hand.

Cheers
James

PS

Jan asked for and here is the tail of -vvv

….from my desktop to a mac that does accept passwd-less

debug2: key: /Users/jam/.ssh/id_rsa (0x7fdfbd4032c0)
debug2: key: /Users/jam/.ssh/id_dsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/jam/.ssh/id_ecdsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/jam/.ssh/id_ed25519 (0x0)
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: preferred publickey
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred:
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk /Users/jam/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 60
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg rsa-sha2-512 blen 279
debug2: input_userauth_pk_ok: fp SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk
debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: RSA SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 52
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to ws111 ([192.168.5.111]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0
debug2: channel 0: send open
debug3: send packet: type 90
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions at openssh.com
debug3: send packet: type 80
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug3: receive packet: type 80
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00 at openssh.com want_reply 0
debug3: receive packet: type 91
debug2: channel_input_open_confirmation: channel 0: callback start
debug2: fd 5 setting TCP_NODELAY
debug3: ssh_packet_set_tos: set IP_TOS 0x10
debug2: client_session2_setup: id 0
debug2: channel 0: request pty-req confirm 1
debug3: send packet: type 98
debug2: channel 0: request shell confirm 1
debug3: preferred publickey
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred:
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: RSA SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk /Users/jam/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 60
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg rsa-sha2-512 blen 279
debug2: input_userauth_pk_ok: fp SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk
debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: RSA SHA256:/FjP5L3Grrw1P4KXIq5SsfkEy5RWhmeVehgG5+8k5rk
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 52
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to ws111 ([192.168.5.111]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0
debug2: channel 0: send open
debug3: send packet: type 90
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions at openssh.com
debug3: send packet: type 80
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug3: receive packet: type 80
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00 at openssh.com want_reply 0
debug3: receive packet: type 91
debug2: channel_input_open_confirmation: channel 0: callback start
debug2: fd 5 setting TCP_NODELAY
debug3: ssh_packet_set_tos: set IP_TOS 0x10
debug2: client_session2_setup: id 0
debug2: channel 0: request pty-req confirm 1
debug3: send packet: type 98
debug2: channel 0: request shell confirm 1
debug3: send packet: type 98
debug2: channel_input_open_confirmation: channel 0: callback done
debug2: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
debug3: receive packet: type 99
debug2: channel_input_status_confirm: type 99 id 0
debug2: PTY allocation request accepted on channel 0
debug2: channel 0: rcvd adjust 2097152
debug3: receive packet: type 99
debug2: channel_input_status_confirm: type 99 id 0
debug2: shell request accepted on channel 0
Last login: Thu Sep  6 10:07:47 2018 from 192.168.5.31
[pussycat] /Users/mary [501]%

from that machine back to me

debug2: key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_rsa (0x7f9cffd16f40)
debug2: key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_dsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ecdsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ed25519 (0x0)
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_dsa
debug3: no such identity: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_dsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug3: no such identity: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ecdsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ed25519
debug3: no such identity: /Users/mary/.ssh/id_ed25519: No such file or directory
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
debug3: remaining preferred: password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug2: userauth_kbdint
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 60
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
Password: