Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:50:43 -0500 From: Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avoiding passwords with ssh under 4.3R Message-ID: <3B9F9263.71665CAA@camel.kdsi.net> References: <nospam-1000238233.80909@mx.gbch.net>
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It sounds like you're looking for RSA/DSA based authentication, for version 1 and 2 respectively. On your new box, you probably don't have a key installed for the user that the server you're ssh'ing to recognizes. If you 'man ssh' there is a pretty clear explantion on how to get this going. Greg Black wrote: > > I have recently installed 4.3-RELEASE on a system which needs > ssh access to a couple 4.2-R boxes. I copied the ssh_config and > sshd_config files from the 4.2 boxes to the new system. > > From the 4.2 boxes, I can ssh to any system without a password, > but from the 4.3 box I am prompted for a password on every > system, including the 4.3 box itself. > > The other anomaly is that root can ssh out to all hosts from the > 4.3 box without a password; the password requirement is limited > to non-root users. > > If anybody can tell me what I've missed in order to ssh out of > that 4.3 box as an ordinary user without having to type a > password, I'd be delighted. > > Please address replies to me as well as the list, as I'm not > currently subscribed. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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