Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:55:20 -0700 From: fred@timogen.com To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Why my no-password authentication does not work Message-ID: <012a01c23739$e64cc690$7d05a8c0@fred>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01C236FF.323C7AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi, I follow the following steps to set up two linux machines connected with = non-password authentication, why is it not work? Could u give me some suggestions? The non-password authentication is done with keys. And it's done like = this. a.. Run ssh-keygen on the source machine. Accept the default values = for all questions. Be sure to supply an empty passphrase. This will = create two files under .ssh in your home directory. These files are = ~/.ssh/identity and ~/.ssh/identity.pub. The first file should not be = revealed to anyone. The second file is public and contains your public = key.=20 b.. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the destination = machine and place it within ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Be sure to name the = file correctly.=20 Regards, Fred Zhang ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01C236FF.323C7AE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <P>hi,</P> <P>I follow the following steps to set up two linux machines connected = with=20 non-password authentication, why is it not work?</P> <P>Could u give me some suggestions?</P> <P>The non-password authentication is done with keys. And it's = done like=20 this.</P> <UL> <LI>Run <EM>ssh-keygen</EM> on the source machine. Accept the = default=20 values for all questions. Be sure to supply an empty = passphrase. =20 This will create two files under <KBD>.ssh</KBD> in your home = directory.=20 These files are <KBD>~/.ssh/identity</KBD> and=20 <KBD>~/.ssh/identity.pub</KBD>. The first file should not be = revealed=20 to anyone. The second file is public and contains your public = key.=20 <LI>Copy the contents of <KBD>~/.ssh/identity.pub</KBD> to the = destination=20 machine and place it within <KBD>~/.ssh/authorized_keys</KBD>. = Be sure=20 to name the file correctly. </LI></UL> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards,</DIV> <DIV>Fred Zhang</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0127_01C236FF.323C7AE0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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