Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:38:39 -0500 From: "Brent" <mrb@bmyster.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help configuring ssh pub keys instead of passwords Message-ID: <20050305181134.M99248@bmyster.com>
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On my freebsd 4.10 im trying to setup ssh2 to use dsa keys for authentication instead of passwords .. so far i have done edit /etc/sshd_config Port 22 Protocol 2 PermitRootLogin no MaxStartups 5:50:10 X11Forwarding no PrintLastLog yes SyslogFacility auth LogLevel VERBOSE PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no Banner /etc/issue AllowGroups sshusers <-- this exsists # create some group that you can put OpenSSH users into Next, we'll open and edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config [user@server /dir]#vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config ForwardAgent no ForwardX11 no PasswordAuthentication no CheckHostIP yes Port 22 Protocol 2 then i su to unpriv user and ran ssh-keygen -d then i did cat id_dsa.pub > authorized_keys2 then copy the id_dsa.pub to a floppy so that i could transfer the dsa key to the machine from which id be accessing the unix box. i then tried to use the key from a winblows putty ssh client and i get the folowing error when trying to login to the unix box Unable to use key file "C:\id_dsa" (OpenSSH SSH2 private key) Any help is very appreciated Thank you Brent
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