From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 14:27:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D3237B835 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat22.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.214]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA21271; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:26:29 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA22966; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:19:11 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:19:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HELP!!! using RSA w/o passwords? Message-ID: <20000314051910.A20008@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38CD8A51.A6FB1F3E@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38CD8A51.A6FB1F3E@miltonstreet.com>; from scarleton@miltonstreet.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:40:45PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Although this is a FreeBSD list and your question should probably be directed towards an SSH list, since the answer is simple... 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. [ Remember to copy the public key once more, before you try it again. ] -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message