sshd doesn't like this key: cat ~hansmi/.ssh/authorized_keys2 ssh-dss AAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBANuRyCB3NI4DEg5s9zWQID2N1zMUl/jKu8mjhhg03VbPUbIqhSy+5Eh0Bm/ccTdChBRvq6Y4pedFfkVhf5v2sAvhQfDB+q19kF2TLPUVvuKwClkr3Wk7+sSfhqlvxyEK04cwHkbM7fCopXFDhLcqaJuDsrVRM0FVfEFndsFtgPjPAAAAFQDUzCfxQxcZcPPQi6EGLNBhcSkewwAAAIEAhFtWzhgwHon0Ux8YhSdRy9mEDCT19Og6Eu/LkfqZEmhB38dJLzwDunNGRcAGMVvtm4280o8/bpqzCgJHh6/lq+pyBaP8gEdeFJRdZhuGcRc6ViW+hSxOc6fR/xNL+SSMxtDdSg925g6k79AyXGBnDA7r/REVpM3lLygDCEQhfqoAAACBAM0ZkrvhM6vq5lxXe9MrJA2bsM2laIBy michael@koala.lan when trying to login, the user gets this: $ ssh -l hansmi host -p 2222 Connection closed by 217.148.7.65 /var/log/auth.log says: Jan 15 12:59:33 aqua sshd[23772]: fatal: buffer_get: trying to get more bytes 129 than in buffer 24 password authentication works # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r12 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.4,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.4 (#1, Jan 10 2005, 22:42:13)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache cvs distlocks sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/blubb/gentoo/gentoo-x86 /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://buggy/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib acpi alsa bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr chroot crypt cups divx4linux dvd emul-linux-x86 encode esd f77 fam flac font-server ftp gdbm gif gimp glx gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib java jp2 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mng motif mozdomi mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn multilib mysql ncurses network nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam perl png posix python readline samba sdl sematicfix speex sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales utf8 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xsl xv zlib" Unset: LDFLAGS can anybody confirm this on a non-amd64-box?
Confirmed on alpha.
Unconfirming on alpha, it was another problem (linebreaks in the key).
does your key have line breaks too ?
the key was truncated. @hansmi: generate a new one, your recent sucks :P