Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:19:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP!!! using RSA w/o passwords? Message-ID: <20000314051910.A20008@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <38CD8A51.A6FB1F3E@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:40:45PM -0500 References: <38CD8A51.A6FB1F3E@miltonstreet.com>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Sam Carleton wrote: > I have both ssh and ssh2 installed on all my machines. At present all > that is needed to authenticate is the users password. I would like to > use RSA authentication without needed a password, but I cannot figure > out how to do it. Although this is a FreeBSD list and your question should probably be directed towards an SSH list, since the answer is simple... When you create your RSA key with ssh-keygen, and get prompted for a password, just hit <RETURN> and you'll create an RSA key *without* any password. That should solve your problem. [ Remember to copy the public key once more, before you try it again. ] -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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