From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 03:40:51 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 EF498106564A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [198.124.252.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04288FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id ULC88050; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:40:50 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id CC8304500F; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:40:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Gavin Spomer In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:29 PDT." <48A31B61020000900001C109@hermes.cwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1218685249_34728P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:40:49 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080814034049.CC8304500F@ptavv.es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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 03:40:52 -0000 --==_Exmh_1218685249_34728P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Format recovered. A newline every 72-75 characters would be more polite. > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:29 -0700 > From: Gavin Spomer > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > 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. :( It's not asking for your password. It's asking for your passphrase to decrypt your private key. Are you running an ssh-agent on the Suse system? If this does not point you in the right direction, try running ssh -v. This MAY give us an idea of the problem, though the debug data from the server would be better. MacOS X uses the FreeBSD user environment, so it should work the same under FreeBSD as it does on the Mac. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1218685249_34728P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFIo6lBkn3rs5h7N1ERAoPmAJ98h+LTv0LDFZbehueghQG1XhValgCfdzEo 4+cXmwhLfzEJOXBOPbjrVQI= =tmpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1218685249_34728P--