[Planetlab-users] Occasionally "Permission denied (publickey, keyboard-interactive)." error messages when trying to ssh to PL nodes

Neil Spring nspring at cs.washington.edu
Thu Aug 26 13:08:39 EDT 2004


Florian,

Try "curl -s s http://jabber.services.planet-lab.org/php/feed/alert.csv 
| grep <hostname>" when you have trouble logging into a node.  It is 
possible that the nodes are in debug mode, generally broken, out of 
disk space, etc.

-neil

On Aug 26, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Florian Brieler wrote:

> Hi All!
>  
> I have a question: I configured ssh-agent to automatically login for 
> me in ssh sessions. This works in many cases very well. However, in 
> some other cases, I get the above-mentioned error message "Permission 
> denied (publickey, keyboard-interactive).", and I have no idea from 
> what reason. I tried the same nodes on different days as well. And of 
> course, all of the nodes I want to ssh to, I added to my slice before. 
> The problem is that there are roughly 25 out of a hundred nodes where 
> I face this problem.
>  My PI thinks the problem could be that the nodes are not aware of my 
> slice, rather than of the correct public-key. What can I do?
>  
> Thanks, Florian
>  
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