Bdtyktl

I've got a machine running Ubuntu in the office.I've got a machine running Mint at home.
My goal is to be able to work from home connecting to the office with ssh.

I swear i tried to look for similar errors in the forum but they all were to me different or the solution was weird to me. Please be patient with me.

what i did:

i took my personal home laptop at work to configure it correctly.

purged from both machines ssh

installed them again

tried to ssh from client (personal laptop) to server (work machine)
it doesn't work. It seems not able to recognize my password.

stefania@host's password: 

Permission denied, please try again.

stefania@host's password: 

Permission denied, please try again.

stefania@host's password: 

Permission denied (publickey,password)

tried then to avoid the issue using rsa keys for authentication

ssh-keygen -t rsa on the client

left with no passphrase

ssh-copy-id wouldn't work (with the same password issue -of course-) so i manually generated the authorized_keys file on the server side transferring the client id_rsa.pub with a pendrive and made sure it was chmod 600 and chmod 700 on both ~/.ssh folders.

all the config files (/etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config) are untouched and therefore set as default and rsakey authentication is enabled.
(Just to make crystal clear i didn't have errors in them i compared both files with the ones by a friend which is actually able to ssh connect and they are the same)

retried

ssh -vvv name@host 

(i'll post only the interesting bits)

OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6ubuntu0.4, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *

debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0

debug1: Connecting to hostip [hostip] port 22.

debug1: Connection established.

debug3: Incorrect RSA1 identifier

debug3: Could not load "/home/clientuser/.ssh/id_rsa" as a RSA1 public key

debug1: identity file /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_rsa type 1



debug1: Server host key: RSA 78:0e:41:cd:69:50:e5:25:b3:98:0d:c1:cb:37:69:c6

debug3: load_hostkeys: loading entries for host "hostip" from file "/home/clientuser/.ssh/known_hosts"

debug3: load_hostkeys: found key type RSA in file /home/clientuser/.ssh/known_hosts:1

debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys

debug1: Host 'hostip' is known and matches the RSA host key.

debug1: Found key in /home/clientuser/.ssh/known_hosts:1

debug2: bits set: 557/1024

debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct

debug2: kex_derive_keys

debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent

debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS

debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0

debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received

debug1: Roaming not allowed by server

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent

debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received

debug2: key: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_rsa (0x7f8c00e1c690),

debug2: key: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_dsa ((nil)),

debug2: key: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_ecdsa ((nil)),

debug3: input_userauth_banner

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/clientuser/.ssh/id_rsa

debug3: send_pubkey_test

debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password

debug1: Trying private key: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_dsa

debug3: no such identity: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_dsa: No such file or directory

debug1: Trying private key: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_ecdsa

debug3: no such identity: /home/clientuser/.ssh/id_ecdsa: No such file or directory

debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method

debug3: authmethod_lookup password

debug3: remaining preferred: ,password

debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password

debug1: Next authentication method: password

serveruser@hostip's password: 

the server side fails to find the key and propmpts for a password which doesn't work as mentioned.

i'm lost. many thanks

I am not expert here,

But in my suggestion, please try to use this tutorial:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys