SSH Permission Denied

[Susanna Moser]

I’m having trouble using the ssh command from the hello_fabric tutorial. My bastion key is uploaded and I’m able to use paramiko but if I try to use the automatically generated ssh command I get this error:

ssh -i /home/fabric/.ssh/id_rsa_fabric -i /home/fabric/.ssh/id_rsa -J susanna_moser_0051524387@bastion-1.fabric-testbed.net centos@63.239.135.94
susanna_moser_0051524387@bastion-1.fabric-testbed.net: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Any advice? I’m confused on why it would work with paramiko but not ssh.

[ADAM GRIFFITH]

Try eval ssh-agent -s followed by ssh-add /path/to/<fabric key file>. Then take your ssh command above, remove the first key option/value and run it again.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by ADAM GRIFFITH.

[Susanna Moser]

That worked, thank you!

[ADAM GRIFFITH]

Extended answer: For my personal sanity I added a pattern resembling to ~/.ssh/config file:

### The External Fabric Bastion host
Host fabric-bastion-host
  HostName bastion-1.fabric-testbed.net
  Port 22
  User susanna_moser_0051524387
  IdentityFile ~/work/id_rsa_fabric

This transforms ssh commands into ssh -J fabric-bastion-host -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa centos@63.239.135.94 without the need for the ssh-agent voodoo.

[Susanna Moser]

That’s smart, thank you!

[Hussam Nasir]

Here is my version of the ssh config file. Its advisable to save it in ~/work/.ssh/config rather than ~/.ssh/config since ~/work is persistent upon re-creation of the jupyterhub instance

 

UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
StrictHostKeyChecking no
ServerAliveInterval 120

Host bastion-?.fabric-testbed.net
User <your bastion host username>
ForwardAgent yes
Hostname %h
IdentityFile <path to your bastion host private key>
IdentitiesOnly yes

Host * !bastion-?.fabric-testbed.net
ProxyJump <your bastion host username>@bastion-1.fabric-testbed.net:22
##ProxyJump <your bastion host username>@bastion-2.fabric-testbed.net:22

Once this file is saved, you no longer need the -J param as long as this file is included in your ssh command .

For example.

ssh -F ~/work/.ssh/config centos@63.239.135.94 should work

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