Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:14:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: fred@timogen.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why my no-password authentication does not work Message-ID: <20020729071457.GA27144@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <012a01c23739$e64cc690$7d05a8c0@fred> References: <012a01c23739$e64cc690$7d05a8c0@fred>
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:55:20PM -0700, fred@timogen.com wrote:
> I follow the following steps to set up two linux machines connected
> with non-password authentication, why is it not work?
What does this have to do with FreeBSD?
> The non-password authentication is done with keys. And it's done like this.
>
> a.. Run ssh-keygen on the source machine. Accept the default
> values for all questions. Be sure to supply an empty passphrase.
> This will create two files under .ssh in your home directory. These
> files are ~/.ssh/identity and ~/.ssh/identity.pub. The first file
> should not be revealed to anyone. The second file is public and
> contains your public key.
> b.. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the destination
> machine and place it within ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Be sure to name
> the file correctly.
Use 'ssh -v -v -v' to trace what's going on.
Taking an educated guess, identity.pub is a RSA1 key, which only works
with SSHv1. Unless you're using a truely ancient version of ssh, it's
going to prefer using SSHv2, which means that you should setup RSA or
DSA identity keys.
Matthew
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