Corri ssh-add -L
para confirmar que minha chave foi carregada
firewall ~ $ ssh-add -L
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAA.....snip.....VBQ== rsa-key-20170210
etc...
Então corri ssh -v m4
para ver o que o SSH achava que estava acontecendo ... e tive um momento de luz.
firewall ~ $ ssh m4 -v
OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config
debug1: /root/.ssh/config line 11: Applying options for m4
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to m4 [192.168.9.74] port 22.
debug1: fd 3 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
...snip
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.6.1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3 pat OpenSSH_5* compat 0x0c000000
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none
debug1: kex: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 need=20 dh_need=20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<7680<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: Server host key: RSA 23:87:00:00:00:00:00:00:N0:N0:N0
debug1: Host 'm4' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1869
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-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-keyex
debug1: No valid Key exchange context
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available (default cache: KEYRING:persistent:0)
debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available (default cache: KEYRING:persistent:0)
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
Password: ^C
Essa linha debug1: /root/.ssh/config line 11: Applying options for m4
me chamou a atenção - não deveria haver nada específico para esse host.
Host 10.99.2.23 # m4 drac
PasswordAuthentication=yes
PubkeyAuthentication=no
Portanto, o host físico é um servidor Dell e possui uma porta OOB dedicada para acesso ao console. A Dell chama isso de porta DRAC e eu tenho um registro DNS configurado para m4-drac
O DRAC não está configurado para usar chaves públicas SSH para autenticação, portanto, essa configuração o impede de tentar. Mas a configuração estava sendo aplicada ao hostname m4 porque ele não honra o hash.
ANSWER O arquivo .config do ssh não observa o Hash como um delimitador de comentários.