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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:50:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
To:        Rajeev Agrawala <rajeeva@research.bell-labs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rsaauthentication
Message-ID:  <20011212205032.35038.qmail@web20609.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C17599D.1000807@research.bell-labs.com>

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--- Rajeev Agrawala <rajeeva@research.bell-labs.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to use rsaauthentication with
> openssh-3.0.1p1. If the client 
> side user (remote user) is same as server user,
> rsaauthentication works 
> just fine by putting the identity.pub in
> authorized_keys fileon 
> serverside. However if I try to use
> rsaauthentication where, the client 
> side user is different than server side user,
> rsaauthentication fails. I 
> have the client side users identity.pub in
> serverside user's 
> homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys file. What could be
> wrong here? I am using 
> it on Redhat linux 7.2 system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> rajeev


Did you physically copy these files?  I believe you do
not need to actually copy these files, but that ssh
will create the identification keys on the client side
as  you connect to the server.  Try removing the keys
on the client side and then connecting to the ssh
server.

-Donnie

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