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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:41:15 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Gabriel Rossetti <rossettigab@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh w/ rsa certs not working
Message-ID:  <45B7E08B.3090309@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <45B7DFB5.2040108@charter.net>
References:  <45B7DFB5.2040108@charter.net>

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Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to setup ssh on a FreeBSD 4.8 (OpenSSH_3.5p1) to use 
> certificates to log in to a FreeBSD 6.1 (OpenSSH_4.2p1) machine, but it 
> still asks for a password.

<snip>

> The user needing to log in is root (I know this is not good and turned 
> off by default), so I re-enabled root login with ssh but like I said 
> above, I get a password
> prompt when I do : ssh -l root machine2 whoami

try "ssh -vv -l root machine2 whoami" and see what's biting you, perhaps.

KDK

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