[Info-vax] SSH / SFTP troubles

[Jose Baars]

A few more things to check: 

1. With a lot of versions of TCPIP SSH the key files must be in stream_lf 
   format, to be checked by dir/full, check the following lines in the output:
...
Record format:      Stream_LF, maximum 0 bytes, longest 32767 bytes
Record attributes:  Carriage return carriage control
...

If that is not the case, convert them to stream_lf format by
convert/fdl="file;org seq;record;format stream_lf;" <wrongformatfile> <stmlffile>.

Check the output files again with dir/full, to be sure.


2. the keys private and public have to have the following format:


---- BEGIN SSH2 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY ----
Subject: josebaars
Comment: "2048-bit dsa, josebaars at uv, Thu Au\
g 02 2012 17:20:03"
P2/56wAAA4IAAAAmZGwtbW9kcHtzaWdue2RzYS1uaXN0LXNoYTF9LGRoe3BsYWlufX0AAA
...
SvvgdR0kUYety1xuWVG5r/XnZfEWXTDUDbYerAr9FC2asAAAAJ9PaGqz4fB2PLuT4spenU
4dhbf+nA==
---- END SSH2 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY ----


---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Subject: josebaars
Comment: "2048-bit dsa, josebaars at uv, Thu Au\
g 02 2012 17:20:03"
AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAAEBANuAFuqYQJc0VrEYxG++FSzQdHfMfvMEpz/fNFNQsSYxeFa2gB
RyjLrCLcJ2BuKJe5LfiFCfmxZIvkLcNwyDNxkO2wmziOT/WLcSkJxFDamrF5BTkS7+NGbZ
...
1Jdh/A3I26AQ7ucGZ1sZP/6j+cL+FMN7j/ziexZRmMLjvYzCPZdyhSSi2MWpkpZG7ZBK++
B1HSRRh63LXG5ZUbmv9edl8RZdMNQNth6sCv0ULZqw
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

If not, convert them using a ssh-keygen tool on Linux or PuttyGen.
I didn't check, but last time I looked that wasn't possible with TCPIP
ssh_keygen.