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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SSH Keys Authentication keeps asking for password Post 302653227 by RedSpyder on Friday 8th of June 2012 02:37:12 PM
Old 06-08-2012
First of all thanks a lot hergp for your help. I finally figured out what was happening.

Problem was that I didnt have the following keys enabled in the sshd_config file:

Code:
RSAAuthentication yes
PubKeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFlle %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

Besides that, since I didnt have
Code:
ssh-copy-id

command I had to manually paste the key in ServerB. That made it interpret the key as 3 separate lines.

To solve this, in case you cant use ssh-copy-id. Paste the first line of your key WITHOUT the last 2 characters, then type yourself the missing characters from line 1 and the first one from line 2, this will prevent adding a "new line" between the first and second line of the key. Repeat with the 3d line
 

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libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex

libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)				  libssh2 manual				libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)

NAME

       libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex - Tunnel a TCP connection through an SSH session

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libssh2.h>

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL * libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *host, int port, const char *shost, int sport);

       LIBSSH2_CHANNEL * libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, const char *host, int port);

DESCRIPTION

       session - Session instance as returned by libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

       host - Third party host to connect to using the SSH host as a proxy.

       port - Port on third party host to connect to.

       shost - Host to tell the SSH server the connection originated on.

       sport - Port to tell the SSH server the connection originated from.

       Tunnel  a TCP/IP connection through the SSH transport via the remote host to a third party. Communication from the client to the SSH server
       remains encrypted, communication from the server to the 3rd party host travels in cleartext.

RETURN VALUE

       Pointer to a newly allocated LIBSSH2_CHANNEL instance, or NULL on errors.

ERRORS

       LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC -  An internal memory allocation call failed.

SEE ALSO

       libssh2_session_init_ex(3)

libssh2 0.15							    1 Jun 2007					libssh2_channel_direct_tcpip_ex(3)
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