SSH Key Refused

[Rod Macpherson]

Eclipse SSH integration wizard is magical. You provide the host name
and login information. The wizard uses a password-based login to
transfer your public key to your home directory (including creating
the .ssh folder) as the authorized_keys file. Then your CVS interface
from Eclipse just works.

Unfortunately I get a "Key Refused" error when trying to use command
line CVS with the putty SSH implementation. I registered my private
key (generated with puttygen) with pageant, then try to connect with
plink. In verbose mode this is what I get. Note that after "Key
Refused" my password is manually typed in and accepted. That is why
CVS fails because it cannot handle the password request. My public key
was appended to my authorized_keys file so it should be able to
authenticate without a password. Pageant caches access to my private
key so the authentication should work with no passwords.

Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1
We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY_Release_0.58
Using SSH protocol version 2
Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Host key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 1024 02:68:b2:fe:d8:d3:0f:55:7c:46:64:43:a2:ec:5a:b
Initialised AES-256 client->server encryption
Initialised HMAC-SHA1 client->server MAC algorithm
Initialised AES-256 server->client encryption
Initialised HMAC-SHA1 server->client MAC algorithm
Using username "xagent".
Reading private key file "C:\putty\.ssh\xagent.ppk"
Pageant is running. Requesting keys.
Pageant has 1 SSH-2 keys
Trying Pageant key #0
This key matches configured key file
Key refused
address@hidden's password:
Sent password
Access granted
Opened channel for session
Allocated pty (ospeed 38400bps, ispeed 38400bps)
Started a shell/command
Last login: Thu Feb  2 13:30:23 2006 from ec29d2d7ecfe48b
Welcome to Darwin!

Side note: the key Eclipse put in authorized_keys is a binary blob
rather than the text based key generated by puttygen. Not sure what
the deal is there. I am generating SSH2 DSA keys.