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From: dannyman <dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org>
To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ssh
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On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:02:50PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote:
> At 12 Mar 98 18:09:53 "Paul T. Root" wrote regarding Re: How do you assign the
> ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET?
> 
>  "T> All the more reason to use ssh
> 
> Ok ok guys. So I tried ssh, from the machine to itself for starters.
> 
> Is it supposed to be possible to login without password, just like rlogin? It
> keeps asking for a password for the key, but just tell me if it is supposed do
> work without, and I'll keep rtfm'ing...

Yes, it is.

It does for me.

When you ssh-keygen(1), don't enter a passphrase.  That was the caveat that
got me stuck while I was rtfm. :)

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