From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 15:21:30 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 6E2371065685 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ip@doom.ctinet.ru) Received: from hosting.ctinet.ru (hosting.ctinet.ru [213.159.69.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8718FC34 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ip@doom.ctinet.ru) Received: from doom.ctinet.ru (doom.ctinet.ru [213.159.64.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by hosting.ctinet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7EFAnsL026740 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:50 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ip@doom.ctinet.ru) Received: from doom.ctinet.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by doom.ctinet.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m7EFAniK032469; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ip@doom.ctinet.ru) Received: (from ip@localhost) by doom.ctinet.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m7EFAm6p032468; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:48 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ip) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:10:48 +0400 From: Igor Pokrovsky To: Gavin Spomer Message-ID: <20080814151047.GA32430@doom.ctinet.ru> References: <48A31B61020000900001C109@hermes.cwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A31B61020000900001C109@hermes.cwu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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 15:21:30 -0000 On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:35:29PM -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. :( You can generate keys with empty pass phrase, so it won't be asked ;-) -ip