Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:51:15 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with ssh Message-ID: <20080318134835.Q20176@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <153044.57762.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <153044.57762.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, White Hat wrote: > I have tried using the following command with negative results. > > ssh -L 5902:localhost:5901 scorpio > > That produces this error message: > > Permission denied (publickey). > > I found a reference to this command at: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/sshvnc.html > > I cannot figure out how to correct whatever the problem is. I am attempting to > connect to a FreeBSD-6.3 machine running 'TightVNC' from a WinXP machine. The > connection works fine using a regular connection; however, I would prefer to > use 'ssh' and limit the port to localhost for security. > > Thanks! > > -- > White Hat > pigskin_referee@yahoo.com Can you use putty or the like and ssh into scorpio without a prompt? If not then you just need to key up ssh to allow login via ssh-add.
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