On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 06:31, Ivo Mencke wrote: > Hello folks, > > I have a problem on redhat9 with ssh. With the default install I dont > seem to be able to manage key based authentication. > > ie: i copy the id_rsa.pub to the remote redhat9 host and rename it into > the same users home directory/.ssh/authorized_keys > > so i am coming from redhat 7.2 to redhat 9. > > This works perfectly for a remote redhat 7.2 (a lot of our older boxes > here) and under freebsd. I can login with no password using the keys. > > am in missing something in sshd_config? because i cant see it. ---- procedure that I have written down... $ ssh-keygen <dialogue> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa <dialogue> $ ssh-keygen -t dsa <dialogue> $ scp ~/.ssh/*.pub you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:tmp Password: <scp output> $ ssh you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Password: remote$ cat ~/tmp/identity.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys remote$ cat ~/tmp/id_{r,d}sa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 remote$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys{,2} remote$ exit $ ssh you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx remote$ Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list