ssh and dsa keys

[Avi Greenbury]

Art Edwards wrote:
> My front end machine is ignoring my dsa key on the first login attempt. That is,
> The first time I attempt to login, it requires a password. Once I am logged in,
> all succeeding attempts access the dsa key. I'm running 12.04.2, and all ssh 
> traffic is on internal networks.

Are these successive attempts using the key, or are they using a
shared socket; how are you determining that they are using the key?

You can use the -v flag to the SSH client to get more details, more vs
give more details:

    ssh -v user at host

will give you more details as to how its trying to connect, 

    ssh -vv user at host

will elaborate on reasons for failure. Could you reply with the
outputs of those commands if they're not particularly enlightening for
you, please?

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Avi