Re: SSH Key authentication

[Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:20:30AM -0500, dschaible@obiwan.balmar.com wrote:
> Can someone point me to good docs concerning passwordless key-based
> authentication for ssh2?

I'd check the ssh man page, which covers this pretty thoroughly.  If
you've already got SSH1 working correctly, then the differences are:
	Public Key	Private Key	Authorized Keys	  Generated By*:
SSH1	identity.pub	identity	authorized_keys	  ssh-keygen
SSH2	id_dsa.pub	id_dsa		authorized_keys2  ssh-keygen -d

* How you run ssh-keygen changes between 2.3.0p1 and 2.5.1p1, because
  it adds support for RSA keys in protocol 2.  I've listed ssh-keygen
  syntax for 2.3.0p1 above.  For 2.5.1p1, use: "ssh-keygen" for RSA
  keys for protocol 1, "ssh-keygen -t dsa" for DSA keys for protocol 2,
  and "ssh-keygen -t rsa" for RSA keys for protocol 2.

HTH,

Nalin