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Date:      Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:32:28 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@InsightBB.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...
Message-ID:  <20050601193228.GB26639@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com>
References:  <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com>

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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:49:45PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:

> I'm trying to use scp and I get prompted for a password or passphrase
> for each invocation.
>
> I figure I need to figure out how to get ssh to connect without
> prompting, but I just can't get it.  I've read all the man pages and
> my head is swirling.  I went to the OpenSSH web site and got no
> further.  I've been in the business for 28 years and can usually
> figure things out from man pages, but ssh doesn't seem to be clear
> enough. =20

Try invoking ssh with the -v option, to see what goes wrong.
=20
> I've used ssh-keygen and I'm trying to login to the localhost (using it's=
=20
> hostname).

Have you copied $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on
the target machine?

> Anybody know of a short tutorial that just works?

I'm using the ssh1 protocol. I've set the following in ~/.ssh/config:

PasswordAuthentication =3D no
RhostsAuthentication =3D no
RhostsRSAAuthentication =3D no
RSAAuthentication =3D yes

That works for me.

Roland
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R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text.
public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt

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