How could I stop ssh offering a wrong key?

Posted by Alvaro Maceda on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Alvaro Maceda
Published on 2012-11-21T10:29:16Z Indexed on 2012/11/21 11:05 UTC
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(This is a problem with ssh, not gitolite)

I've configured gitolite on my home server (ubuntu 12.04 server, open-ssh). I want an special identityfile to administer the repositories, so I need to access throught ssh to my own host ussing two different identity keys.

This is the content of my .ssh/config file:

Host gitadmin.gammu.com
User            git
IdentityFile    /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_gitolite_mantra

Host git.gammu.com
User            git
IdentityFile    /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_alvaro_mantra

This is the content of my hosts file:

# Git
127.0.0.1      gitadmin.gammu.com
127.0.0.1      git.gammu.com

So I should be able to communicate with gitolite this way to access with the "normal" account:

$ssh git.gammu.com 

and this way to access with the administrative account:

$ssh gitadmin.gammu.com

When I try to access with the normal account, all is ok:

alvaro@mantra:~/.ssh$ ssh git.gammu.com
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello alvaro, this is gitolite 2.2-1 (Debian) running on git 1.7.9.5
the gitolite config gives you the following access:
    @R_ @W_    testing
Connection to git.gammu.com closed.

When I do the same with the administrative account:

alvaro@mantra:~$ ssh gitadmin.gammu.com
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello alvaro, this is gitolite 2.2-1 (Debian) running on git 1.7.9.5
the gitolite config gives you the following access:
    @R_ @W_    testing
Connection to gitadmin.gammu.com closed.

It should show the administrative repository. If I launch ssh with verbose option:

ssh -vvv gitadmin.gammu.com 
...
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug2: key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_alvaro_mantra (0x7f7cb6c0fbc0)
debug2: key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_gitolite_mantra (0x7f7cb6c044d0)
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password
debug3: preferred gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_alvaro_mantra
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
...

It's offering the key id_alvaro_mantra, and it should'nt!!

The same happens when I specify the key with the -i option:

ssh -i /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_gitolite_mantra -vvv gitadmin.gammu.com
...
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug2: key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_alvaro_mantra (0x7fa365237f90)
debug2: key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_gitolite_mantra (0x7fa365230550)
debug2: key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_gitolite_mantra (0x7fa365231050)
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password
debug3: preferred gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/alvaro/.ssh/id_alvaro_mantra
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
debug2: input_userauth_pk_ok: fp 36:b1:43:36:af:4f:00:e5:e1:39:50:7e:07:80:14:26
debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: RSA 36:b1:43:36:af:4f:00:e5:e1:39:50:7e:07:80:14:26
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
...

What the hell is happening??? I'm missing something, but I can't find what.

These are the contents of my home dir:

-rw-rw-r--  1 alvaro alvaro  395 nov 14 18:00 authorized_keys
-rw-rw-r--  1 alvaro alvaro  326 nov 21 10:21 config
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro  137 nov 20 20:26 environment
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1766 nov 20 21:41 id_alvaromaceda.es
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  404 nov 20 21:41 id_alvaromaceda.es.pub
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1766 nov 14 17:59 id_alvaro_mantra
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  395 nov 14 17:59 id_alvaro_mantra.pub
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro  771 nov 14 18:03 id_developer_mantra
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1679 nov 20 12:37 id_dos_pruebasgit
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  395 nov 20 12:37 id_dos_pruebasgit.pub
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1679 nov 20 12:46 id_gitolite_mantra
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  397 nov 20 12:46 id_gitolite_mantra.pub
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1675 nov 20 21:44 id_gitpruebas.es
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  408 nov 20 21:44 id_gitpruebas.es.pub
-rw-------  1 alvaro alvaro 1679 nov 20 12:34 id_uno_pruebasgit
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro  395 nov 20 12:34 id_uno_pruebasgit.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 alvaro alvaro 2434 nov 21 10:11 known_hosts

There are a bunch of other keys which aren't offered... why id_alvaro_mantra is offered and not the other keys? I can't understand.

I need some help, don't know where to look....

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