[paramiko] authentication failed

[Robey Pointer]

On 13 Dec 2006, at 7:41, mike wrote:

> hi
> i have this code from the demo. I wanted to connect using only  
> public key authentication
> try:
>     k = paramiko.RSAKey(filename='test_rsa') #test_rsa is priv key
>     t = paramiko.Transport(("host", port))
>     t.connect(username="user",pkey=k) #using only public key  
> authentication
>     sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
>
>     # dirlist on remote host
>     dirlist = sftp.listdir('.')
>     print "Dirlist:", dirlist
>     t.close()
>
> except Exception, e:
>     print '*** Caught exception: %s: %s' % (e.__class__, e)
>     traceback.print_exc()
>     try:
>         t.close()
>     except:
>         pass
>     sys.exit(1)
>
>
> when i ran it, it give me this error:
>
> *** Caught exception: paramiko.AuthenticationException:  
> Authentication failed.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./test.py", line 24, in ?
>     t.connect(username="user",pkey=k)
>   File "/usr/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/paramiko/ 
> transport.py", line 854, in connect
>     self.auth_publickey(username, pkey)
>   File "/usr/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/paramiko/ 
> transport.py", line 1081, in auth_publickey
>     return self.auth_handler.wait_for_response(my_event)
>   File "/usr/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/paramiko/ 
> auth_handler.py", line 174, in wait_for_response
>     raise e
> AuthenticationException: Authentication failed.
>
>
> the error log shows:
>
>  remote aes128-cbc; mac: local hmac-sha1, remote hmac-sha1;  
> compression: local none, remote none
> DEB [20061213-23:39:31.225] thr=1   paramiko.transport: Switch to  
> new keys ...
> DEB [20061213-23:39:31.230] thr=2   paramiko.transport: Attempting  
> public-key auth...
> DEB [20061213-23:39:31.318] thr=1   paramiko.transport: userauth is OK
> INF [20061213-23:39:31.699] thr=1   paramiko.transport:  
> Authentication (publickey) failed.
> DEB [20061213-23:39:31.810] thr=1   paramiko.transport: EOF in  
> transport thread
>
> What am i doing wrong?
> thanks

Maybe the error message could be clearer.  It means your login was  
rejected by the server.

robey