dysprosium

I just added the ~/.ssh/config file on client side:

Host pidoos
     HostName 192.168.2.223
     User pi
     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Same result.

The /etc/ssh/ssh_config is only relevant on the server side, right? Well, here it is.

well seems to work without tho

edit: made no difference, but I changed it in the post title.

I have zsh

I'm not sure which logs I can and should check, but when I listen to this: sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log

I only get this right after I ctrl+C on my blank / blinking cursor screen. (Did this 3 times in a row.)

2024-08-14T11:35:32.874228+02:00 pidoos sshd[3957]: Connection closed by authenticating user pi MY_PUBLIC_IP port 52242 [preauth]
2024-08-14T11:35:50.168160+02:00 pidoos sshd[3975]: Connection closed by authenticating user pi MY_PUBLIC_IP port 39266 [preauth]
2024-08-14T11:35:55.236347+02:00 pidoos sshd[3987]: Connection closed by authenticating user pi MY_PUBLIC_IP port 41318 [preauth]

Where MY_PUBLIC_IP is redacted. I'm not even sure why my public IP is showing. I connect locally. But ports are forwarded, yes.

Using sudo journalctl -u sshd -f does not seem to output anything...

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4rfg9s81q1a55xoj7ug8y/ssh_verbose.txt?rlkey=0gfiv6h3gitvmgaowduz1i83b&dl=0

edit: fixed link

can you expand on that? What do you mean different names? My PC has of course a different username than the server I'm connecting to. The label name at the end of the key is just a comment, so this is also not what you're referring to, I think.

okay I tried that, using -i to specify private key. I get the same thing: blank / blinking cursor. When I use verbose -v flag, I see that in BOTH cases (I see about 50 lines) it ends with these two lines:

debug1: Offering public key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:j3MUkYzhTrjC6PHkIbre3O(etc) agent
debug1: Server accepts key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:j3MUkYzhTrjC6PHkIbre3OT(etc) agent

where (etc) is some redacted text. It seems the server is ACCEPTING the key, which is nice. But then it’s still a blinking cursor…

okay I tried that, using -i to specify private key. I get the same thing: blank / blinking cursor. When I use verbose -v flag, I see that in all cases (using -i, the config file, and originally) it ends with these two lines (after about 50 lines) :

debug1: Offering public key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:j3MUkYzhTrjC6PHkIbre3O(etc) agent
debug1: Server accepts key: /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:j3MUkYzhTrjC6PHkIbre3OT(etc) agent

where (etc) is some redacted text. It seems the server is ACCEPTING the key, which is nice. But then it's still a blinking cursor...

it got 600 both the private and public key, stored in ~/.ssh/

I'm pretty sure I generated it to ~/.ssh/id_rsa which I think the default location. It is also the location shown in the terminal image in my post.

It's also annoying that Microsoft sends links via sms using a really scratchy looking domain (aka.ms). Turns out they're legit

I neeeed video of this.