Hi,
I am just migrating to Centos from fedora core 3.
I have 3 boxes involved here:
Box A --Fedora 3 (doing the dns, http, sendmail serving duties)
Box B --CentOS
Box C --CentOS
I used to run root passwordless ssh both ways from boxes A and B mainly
set up to keep the 2 boxes in sync w/rsync ... these 2 boxes normally
ran one being the slave and the other being the master...the master did
all the serving duties...if something happened where the master couldn't
do it anymore, then the slave becomes master.
I have tried and tried the following
#ssh-keygen -t dsa (and rsa using authorized_keys(2) or both
depending...)
when it asks for passphrase...just enter and enter
# scp /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub boxA:/root/.ssh/
# ssh boxB
#<password>
boxbshell # cat /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >>/root/.ssh/authorized_key or
key2 or both.
# exit
boxashell # ssh boxb
<password> will NOT let me do passwordless
now then I have gotten it to work by using the
following /root/.ssh/.config :
Host remotehost
User remoteuser
Compression yes
Protocol 2
RSAAuthentication yes
StrictHostKeyChecking no
ForwardAgent yes
ForwardX11 yes
IdentityFile /home/localuser/.ssh/id_remotehost_dsa
taken from:
http://www.davz.net/static/howto/sshkeys
I can get it to work from 2 boxes both ways...but when I set up the 3rd
box, it works but one of the other boxes that was good does not do it
anymore.
I go back edit the authorized_key files....
check the other boxes make sure they still work
set up the faulty box again...get it working then one of the other good
boxes doesn't work
I then start looking into the .config file...has some pretty dangerous
things in it that I really don't care for but that's where I am right
now.
does anyone know of anything specific that Centos is doing here? or what
can be my problem?
BTW I am NOT using selinux only as a warn
thx
John Rose
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...and I woke up 2 days later in the back yard talking to Elvis!
