[python-committers] SSH problems attempting to access hg.python.org

[Georg Brandl]

On 10/02/2015 09:21 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 2 October 2015 at 15:33, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> What does `ssh-add -L` give? ssh basically throws keys at the server
>> until the server accepts it. The server has a limit of two attempts, so
>> if have more than two keys in your agent, problems result.
> 
> I normally have 3 loaded, but even cutting it back to 1 didn't help:
> 
> $ hg pull -u
> pulling from ssh://hg@hg.python.org/peps
> remote: Permission denied (publickey).
> abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
> 
> However, I *did* recently upgrade to the Fedora 23 beta, so now I'm
> wondering if there might be a problem with OpenSSH 7.1p1 and
> ssh-ed25519 host keys (it's the only remote SSH host I using with an
> ed25519 key -  all the others are still ssh-rsa).

According to the sshkeys repo, the only key you can use for accessing
hg.python.org is ncoghlan at uberwald, a ssh-dss key which will indeed
not be offered by openssh 7.x anymore.

Georg