Hello, thanks for your replies. Im afraid that doesnt work Craig, I am well aware of how to place the ssh keys in but it is not working, and it seems to be shrike-specific. Mike my permissions are 600 im using ssh version 2 with rsa keys, and they are in the right place with the right names on the remote server. Is there something like and SSH_PATH variable that i can set to tell sshd where to find the authorized_keys file? thanks again, ivo On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 16:45, Mike Burger wrote: > What are the permissions on ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys? > > They should be, at most, 700 (rwx------). > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Craig White wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit > http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a > message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list