Hi, Why cant u use "ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub user@IPaddress"(Destination).. It will automatically copy the public key to ur destination. And u are creating the key as root or normal user ? Thanks, On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Johan Booysen <johan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Might be worth checking the permissions on the .ssh directory and on the > authorized_keys file. That's bitten me before, and should be: > > drwx------ .ssh > -rw-r--r-- authorized_keys > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of a bv > Sent: 12 January 2011 11:27 > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: SSH keygen and login problem > > Hi,, > > For my file transfer script i want to use scp without password. Here > is nearly what i have done: > 1- I logined to my Checkpoint (which is Redhat based and the one who > is source) with my personal user and gave expert command to have root > permissons. > 2. Changed directory to /root/.ssh and gave ssh-keygen -t dsa and > created the key pairs. > 3 I copied yhe public key to my home folder at the remote server like > > scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > myuser@remoteserver:/home/myuser.ssh/authorized_keys > > 4. Then i copied this authorized_keys to the /root/.ssh. > 5 then tried to send a sample file from my Checkpoint box to remote > server > with scp but it requested me to enter a password. > > how can i fix this ? then ill adapt my scirpt to this > regards. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Regards, Abhilash -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
