[wplug] Broke SSH!

[Greg Akins]

Never delete directories out of frustration!

I was trying to get SSH setup for dsa keys (already had it working
with rsa, but needed to try some software that looked like it might
only support rsa).

At some point I thought it would be a good idea to just delete the
client's .ssh directory.  Now when I try to login to the server, I
just get a Permission denied message...  Is there a way to get back to
getting a password prompt on the server so I can start from scratch?

The client is OS X 10.6; the server is CentOS 5.4

Output from 'ssh -v' below:

OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 10.211.55.7 [10.211.55.7] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/gakins/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/gakins/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/gakins/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH_4*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host '10.211.55.7' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/gakins/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/gakins/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/gakins/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /Users/gakins/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic).

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