From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 02:42:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C49106566B for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28828FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (really [24.175.90.48]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080814021759.BLYL13299.cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com@[192.168.2.102]>; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:59 +0000 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:17:58 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: Gavin Spomer , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <48A31B61020000900001C109@hermes.cwu.edu> References: <48A31B61020000900001C109@hermes.cwu.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) X-Munged-Reply-To: To reply - figure it out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========90999CB7B16A01AA3C3E==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:42:18 -0000 --==========90999CB7B16A01AA3C3E========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On August 13, 2008 5:35:29 PM -0700 Gavin Spomer = wrote: > I hope this isn't an invalid topic for this list. I'm on so many lists > and I hate to join another one just to get help on one thing. Apologies > if it's not. > > I am able to use ssh-keygen to generate keys so that I can ssh from my > Mac to any of my SuSE systems or ssh from my Mac to any of my FreeBSD > systems, without having to enter my password. When I try the same thing > from a SuSE system to a FreeBSD system, (I.E. I run "ssh-keygen -t rsa" > on the SuSE system, then copy the id_rsa.pub to my > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the FreeBSD system) I get the following > message when ssh-ing to the FreeBSD system: > > Enter passphrase for key '/home/myusername/.ssh/id_rsa': > > ... and I have to enter my password. I've Googled, but can't seem to > find the answer to my dilemma. Is it generally kind of a pain to do this > between platforms? I'm finally very comfortable on FreeBSD and am > starting to really get annoyed with SuSE. :( > Just to be clear....you're saying that your key pass*phrase* doesn't work=20 and you have to type your pass*word* in instead? Or did you make all your = previous keys passphrase-less and add a passphrase to this one? Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ****************************************** WARNING: Check the headers before replying --==========90999CB7B16A01AA3C3E==========--