[Info-vax] SSH mysteriously stops working

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:31:03 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:

> In article <93k0lsFc1cU4 at mid.individual.net>,
>  Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 19 May 2011 05:53:31 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > In article <93jpfhFc1cU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager
>> > <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>> > 
>> >> What OS is running on the other system?
>> > 
>> > Linux.
>> 
>> Have you upgraded anything on Linux recently? I ask because I had
>> exactly this problem on my BSD systems, and it turned out that the
>> default key type had changed from DSA to RSA.
> 
> That fits with the way that SSH works.  If the first connection method
> it tries (keys in this case) fails, it tries the next method (password
> in this case).

Yes. In my case, all the hosts held public DSA keys, and all the clients 
were trying DSA first.

When I upgraded a client, it started trying RSA first, so complained 
about the fingerprint and dropped back to passwords.

Easy to fix; I just issued RSA public keys.



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