From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 16:45:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.one.net (mail4.one.net [206.112.192.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDAE37B999 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carleton@one.net) Received: from port-8-96.adsl.one.net ([216.23.16.96] EHLO miltonstreet.com ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 56046]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <76133-6829>; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:45:19 -0500 Message-ID: <38D02E15.56AEE21@miltonstreet.com> From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HELP!!! using RSA w/o passwords? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:45:08 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. > > When you create your RSA key with ssh-keygen, and get prompted for a > password, just hit and you'll create an RSA key *without* any > password. That should solve your problem. The password that is needed is the normal login password, not the passphrase I typed in when generating the key. > [ Remember to copy the public key once more, before you try it again. ] What? Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message