Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:18:03 +0200 From: DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Having trouble sharing public/private keys for ssh ... keeps asking for password Message-ID: <642108949.20041006121803@wilbury.sk> In-Reply-To: <20041006100204.95468.qmail@web53305.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041006100204.95468.qmail@web53305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello Joe, Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 12:02:04 PM, you wrote: > Ok, this should be easy: > I want to log in from CLIENT to SERVER without being > asked for a password. > On CLIENT, I run: > ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 > as user "test" > and I do not enter a password. Then I copy the .pub > portion of that key over to SERVER and save it as > /usr/home/jerkoff/.ssh/authorized_keys2 ... note that > I save it as authorized_keys2, because it is a dsa key > ... > then I chmod 0600 authorized_keys2 ... > So now I should be able to go to CLIENT and: > ssh jerkoff@SERVER > and log in with no password, right ? Wrong. I get: > % ssh jerkoff@server > Password: > Response: (I hit enter) > jerkoff@server's password: (I hit enter) > Permission denied, please try again. > So ... what am I doing wrong ? save it as ~/.ssh/authorized_keys it doesen't matter, that it is dsa 2048 bit key... > thanks. -- Best regards +----------==/\/\==----------+ | DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> | | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | | http://danger.homeunix.org | +----------==\/\/==----------+
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