> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:28 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: ssh allowing root login with no password (Solved) > > Steven Buehler wrote: > <snip> > > Strangest thing I ever saw. The problem is solved. The private key > > is the key that I installed into my SecureCRT. If I log into the > > server with that key from SecureCRT, then login to my private server > > and try to ssh > to the > > server where the public key is installed from my private server that > > is in a different tab in SecureCRT, it uses the private key on my > > local Windows7 laptop. I have never seen this before. > > Question: how do the other machines do authentication? Could it be that > you go to log in, and it authenticates you from a root server? > > mark > No, this is the first time I have ever run across this. After some testing, the only thing I can come up with is that once I log in with SecureCRT to the server, I can open other tabs in SecureCRT to other servers and it will use the private key that I have saved in my SecureCRT. This issue does not happen if I use putty. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
