Re: Passwordless login with SSH

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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Rebecca R Hepper seagate com wrote:

>I am trying to do a passwordless login using SSH.
>
>cp /home/username/.ssh/identity.pub from the client onto host and place it
>in /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys
>chmod 600 /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys

You're on the right track.  That's the important part, but it only
works unattended if a) the key is passwordless, b) you have enabled
ssh1 on the server, and c)  you're forcing ssh1 on the client, via
configuration or command line switches.  That's because the keys you
generated are for ssh1, which is not recommended.  Regenerate them
using:

# ssh-keygen -d

The keyfiles will be DSA keys for ssh2, and will be called id_dsa and
id_dsa.pub.  Then try your steps again, but use the filename
authorized_keys2 in place of each instance of authorized_keys.  See
the man page for further details; it's very thorough.

Good luck ... -d

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David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org

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