Re: Private key login from windows and mingw

[Aris Adamantiadis <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I think you miss an ssh_connect() somewhere. I agree that libssh should 
give a more useful error message like "not connected". Otherwise your 
pubkey authentication seems right to me.

Regards,

Aris

Le 5/07/12 20:23, Alfonso Arbona Gimeno a écrit :
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> Hello list,
>
> I'm having some trouble understanding how to login using a private key.
> This is what I do:
>
> my_ssh_session = ssh_new();
> ssh_options_set(my_ssh_session, SSH_OPTIONS_HOST, server);
> ssh_options_set(my_ssh_session, SSH_OPTIONS_LOG_VERBOSITY, &verbosity);
> ssh_options_set(my_ssh_session, SSH_OPTIONS_PORT, &port);
>
> privkey = privatekey_from_file(my_ssh_session, "C:\\data\\privatekey",
> 0, "pass");
>
> rc = ssh_userauth_pubkey(my_ssh_session, "root", NULL, privkey);
> if(rc != SSH_AUTH_SUCCESS)
> 	error....
>
> privatekey_free(privkey);
> ...
>
> And the output I get says:
> [1] Trying to open C:\data\privatekey
> [1] Trying to read C:\data\privatekey, passphase=true, authcb=false
> [3] Writing on the wire a packet having 17 bytes before
> [3] 17 bytes after comp + 10 padding bytes = 28 bytes packet
> [1] Error : Writing packet: error on socket (or connection closed):
> Unknown error
> [3] Sent SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST (service ssh-userauth)
>
>
> I've been trying to follow the examples and I've read the api, the
> documentation and even part of the source code but I don't understand
> what is happening here.
> By the way, my ssh server only accepts certificate login, however I
> can login using Putty (with a copy of the same certificate exported to
> be putty-compatible), and I can also login to ssh from other programs
> such as MySQL Workbench using exactly the same certificate.
>
> In fact, I could connect when my server was configured to use a
> password login, but I wanted more security than just a plain password.
> That's why I am confused about the socket error...
>
> I'm using the precompiled binaries for MinGW, version 0.5.2-1
>
> Any idea?
> And thanks in advance,
>
> Alfonso Arbona
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