ssh keys

Colin Rasor tcaz at tcaz.com
Thu Aug 18 15:38:06 MST 2005


Craig,

 Is RSAAuthentication set to accept pubkey authentication attempts. Do you
have root logins shut off. Check $CONFDIR/sshd_config


--Colin.ansel.Rasor


On 8/18/05 2:55 PM, "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 14:50 -0700, George Joseph Thekkekara wrote:
>> Try authorized_keys or authorized_keys2
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> On 8/18/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>>> perhaps my notes and memory has failed me but it ain't working...
>>> 
>>> on host machine...
>>> 
>>> ssh-keygen -t rsa
>>> ssh-keygen -t dsa
>>> 
>>> scp *pub root at remote:/root
>>> 
>>> on remote machine...
>>> 
>>> cat /root/id_{r,d}sa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorizedkeys_2
>>> 
>>> but it still asks for password when I try to connect as root from remote
>>> host
>>> 
>>> Where am I going wrong?
> ----
> that was a typo...
> 
> [root at linuxserver .ssh]# ls -l
> total 24
> -rw-------    1 root     root         1706 Aug 18 14:48 authorized_keys2
> -rw-------    1 root     root          668 Dec 25  2003 id_dsa
> -rw-------    1 root     root          618 Dec 25  2003 id_dsa.pub
> -rw-------    1 root     root          887 Dec 25  2003 id_rsa
> -rw-------    1 root     root          238 Dec 25  2003 id_rsa.pub
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3083 Aug 18 14:42 known_hosts
> 
> another suggestion?
> 
> Craig
> 
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