From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 22 13:34:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (search.sparks.net [208.5.188.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BF537B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmiller@sparks.net) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 408FEDB4A; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320CFDB48; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:33:18 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: Jacob Frelinger Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3R and ssh problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jacob Frelinger wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Miller wrote: > > > I've got a pair of 4.3R systems which can't ssh to each other without > > using passwords. > > > > ssh by default doesn't behave the same way as rsh. your best bet is to > generate idenity keys and add them to your authorized_keys file on the > other machine. please see the man page for ssh (search for > authorized_keys and authorized_keys2), and then the man page for > ssh-keygen. I will check into this, but authentication through the .shosts file has worked "forever", and if the only solution is a new authentication mechanism we've broken compatibility with a lot of existing apps. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message