Log: unable to use private key
I included about 50 lines of the log below.
Things seemed to be going well with the connection until these lines in the log:
The public key is in
There was a warning about SSH-1, but I used PuTTYgen to create them, so I thought they would be up to par.
Is that the reason for the failure, or should I be looking at something else. Thanks!
Things seemed to be going well with the connection until these lines in the log:
. 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Reading key file "C:\Users\bob\.ssh\FirstPrivate.ppk" . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Unable to use this key file (SSH-1 private key) ! 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Unable to use key file "C:\Users\bob\.ssh\FirstPrivate.ppk" (SSH-1 private key)
c:\ProgramData\ssh\administrators_authorized_keys, on a single line, and appears to be in good shape. The user logging in is in the Administrators Group. sshd_config specifies the above named file.
There was a warning about SSH-1, but I used PuTTYgen to create them, so I thought they would be up to par.
Is that the reason for the failure, or should I be looking at something else. Thanks!
. 2024-09-07 20:01:11.977 Using SSH protocol version 2 . 2024-09-07 20:01:11.977 Have a known host key of type ssh-ed25519 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Detected network event . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Enumerating network events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Enumerated 1 network events making 1 cumulative events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Handling network read event on socket 2044 with error 0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Waiting for the server to continue with the initialization . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Looking for incoming data . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.065 Looking for network events . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.066 Doing ECDH key exchange with curve Curve25519, using hash SHA-256 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Detected network event . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Enumerating network events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Enumerated 1 network events making 1 cumulative events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Handling network read event on socket 2044 with error 0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Waiting for the server to continue with the initialization . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Looking for incoming data . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.217 Looking for network events . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.256 Server also has ecdsa-sha2-nistp256/rsa-sha2-512/rsa-sha2-256/ssh-rsa host keys, but we don't know any of them . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.256 Host key fingerprint is: . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.256 ssh-ed25519 255 SHA256:1jQcp2N9JZLQGQ/2+dR8Vt/vhpO6YAbnAFYoGpwREu0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.256 Verifying host key xxx . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.314 Host key matches cached key . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.315 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR (AES-NI accelerated) [aes256-ctr] outbound encryption . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.315 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 outbound MAC algorithm . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.315 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR (AES-NI accelerated) [aes256-ctr] inbound encryption . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.315 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 inbound MAC algorithm . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Detected network event . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Enumerating network events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Enumerated 1 network events making 1 cumulative events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Handling network read event on socket 2044 with error 0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Waiting for the server to continue with the initialization . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Looking for incoming data . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Looking for network events . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Reading key file "C:\Users\bob\.ssh\FirstPrivate.ppk" . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Unable to use this key file (SSH-1 private key) ! 2024-09-07 20:01:12.401 Unable to use key file "C:\Users\bob\.ssh\FirstPrivate.ppk" (SSH-1 private key) ! 2024-09-07 20:01:12.442 Using username "bob". . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Detected network event . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Enumerating network events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Enumerated 1 network events making 1 cumulative events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Handling network read event on socket 2044 with error 0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Waiting for the server to continue with the initialization . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Looking for incoming data . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.563 Looking for network events . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.564 Server offered these authentication methods: publickey,keyboard-interactive . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.564 Attempting keyboard-interactive authentication . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Detected network event . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Enumerating network events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Enumerated 1 network events making 1 cumulative events for socket 2044 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Handling network read event on socket 2044 with error 0 . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Waiting for the server to continue with the initialization . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Looking for incoming data . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Looking for network events . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Server refused keyboard-interactive authentication . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.656 Server offered these authentication methods: publickey,keyboard-interactive . 2024-09-07 20:01:12.657 No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey,keyboard-interactive)
