From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 9:50:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.kdsi.net (camel.kdsi.net [206.103.113.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC30937B40A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from camel.kdsi.net (leepcD-201.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.201]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by camel.kdsi.net (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id f8CGneov088562; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:49:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3B9F9263.71665CAA@camel.kdsi.net> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:50:43 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avoiding passwords with ssh under 4.3R References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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