Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis
<chris.gelden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to set up an automatic connection between CentOS 4 system
(server) and a CentOS 5 DomU VM (client) via ssh to enable my to back up
development files on the server to the client with a cron process.
I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the
public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as
authorized_keys2.
When I try to ssh to the Server from the Client, I am still asked for the
user's password on the client.
If I do the same with CentOS 5 for both Client and Server, I can login
without providing a password.
The versions of ssh on the two systems are:
Client (CentOS 5): OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
Server (CentOS 4): OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
Does anyone on the list know whether these versions are compatible or how
to get them to work together without requiring a password.
It is not an option to change to CentOS5 on the server side as that system
is serving as a development system for a client running RedHat ES 4 and has
to have the identical configuration and be binary compatible.
I know this works between the entire CentOS family. The main problems
I have seen are that the users home directory or .ssh permissions are
not secure enough for ssh to do its thing.
ssh -v -v -v will tell you more than you want on where it is having
problems.. but the quick fix I use are the following:
su - root
chown $user $user_homedir # fill in $user and $user_home correctly as
in dude and /nfs/home/d/dude
chmod 0750 $user_homedir
chown $user $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0700 $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0600 $user_homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys
If that doesn't fix the problem the -v -v -v will tel what else might
be the cause.
Thanks - changing the permissions fixed the problem . Thanks also to
Daniel for his suggestions.
ChrisG
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