Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:16:57 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SSH and connection automation Message-ID: <20010903171657.A31458@ns2.wananchi.com>
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--tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was today trying to be able to execute commands on a remote machine without supplying a passwd using ssh. Sadly, even just login still prompts me for a passwd.=20 Here is what I did: 1. Generate the key pair ($HOME/.ssh/identity.pub and identity) 2. Exported identity.pub to 3 hosts which I usually connect to I copied (not renamed) the identity.pub to authorized_keys =46rom ssh manpage " ssh implements the RSA authentication protocol automatically. The user creates his/her RSA key pair by running ssh-keygen(1). This stores the private key in $HOME/.ssh/identity and the public key in $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub in the user's home directory. The user should then copy the identity.pub to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in his/her home directory on the remote machine (the authorized_keys file corresponds to the conventional $HOME/.rhosts file, and has one key per line, though the lines can be very long). After this, the user can log in without giving the password. RSA authentication is much more secure than rhosts authentication. " What am I missing? I was thinking in the same lines as rlogin. My username is the same in=20 all these machines. TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. I would have had more fun at a funeral.=20 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7k5DZn7LIsuxjem8RArlGAKCxW8DEPQBNBModZQOT7AD8wwTXwACfc9MK X+x9RZU1Z+YXskotOlAK+Q0= =ykOV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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