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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:51:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug <doug@fledge.watson.org>
To:        White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with ssh
Message-ID:  <20080318134835.Q20176@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <153044.57762.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <153044.57762.qm@web34408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, White Hat wrote:

> I have tried using the following command with negative results.
>
>      ssh -L 5902:localhost:5901 scorpio
>
> That produces this error message:
>
>      Permission denied (publickey).
>
> I found a reference to this command at:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/sshvnc.html
>
> I cannot figure out how to correct whatever the problem is. I am attempting to 
> connect to a FreeBSD-6.3 machine running 'TightVNC' from a WinXP machine. The 
> connection works fine using a regular connection; however, I would prefer to 
> use 'ssh' and limit the port to localhost for security.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> White Hat
> pigskin_referee@yahoo.com

Can you use putty or the like and ssh into scorpio without a prompt? If not then 
you just need to key up ssh to allow login via ssh-add.



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