I was unable to login from my old iMac running Yosemite to my new iMac running Ventura using RSA keys. It turns out that RSA key support was disabled in Ventura. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
SET THE DEFAULT TO SHOW Run this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder: Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard, then right-click the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. SET THE DEFAULT TO HIDE defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO then relaunch finder as above.
Then reboot. YMMV… This is why I am so upset with Apple these days – they constantly “dumb-down” MacOSX, removing features to “protect” the innocent public from harming themselves with the click of a mouse. Perfectly reasonable advanced features that existed in 10.6.8 are no-where to be found in 10.7 Lion (bad) […]
Apple’s 10.7 Lion, is NOT my favorite iteration of MacOSX. They continue to make the OS more Windows-like, which means they have started down that slippery slope… In Snow Leopard, I could have my ssh sessions running for weeks. In Lion, the ssh sessions time out with nasty errors, including “Write failed: Broken pipe”. After […]
erics, May 19th, 2023 
Categories: How-To's, Technology denied, HostKeyAlgorithms, howto, key, login, MacOS, OSX, Permission, Pubkey, PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms, PublicKey, RSA, ssh, sshd, tips, Ventura, Yosemite
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