Hello, Thanks a million for everyones advice, Kathy your solution works, thanks again. I must read up on the security implications of making those changes, but as these systems are internal its not that relevant. ivo, ireland. On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:07, Kathy Bieltz wrote: > Hi, > > Don't know if this will solve your problem but I > went thru this misery trying to get a RH7.3 system > talking to an HP system without a password. > > The solution I found was to root edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config > and change > #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes > to > ChallengeResponseAuthentication no > and > #StrictMode yes > to > StrictMode no > > Then I restarted the sshd daemon > > Kathy Bieltz > > Brian T. Brunner wrote: > > >I share your pain. > > > >Having read all the documents I can find, and having applied all the tweaks this > >group has suggested, rsync *insists* on a password supplied to it from the keyboard > >even when invoked from a shell script, and *refuses* to recognize key-based or > >password-based authorization (except for a password typed on a kbd). > > > >I guess my name is 'cron' until ssh-for-dummies comes out. > > > >Brian Brunner > >brian.t.brunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >(610)796-5838 > > > > > > > >>>>imencke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/09/04 12:33PM >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >Hello, > > > >yes I believe that is all set: > > > >RSAAuthentication yes > >PubkeyAuthentication yes > >AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > > > > > >thanks, > > > >ivo. > > > >On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:26, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > >>On Tuesday 09 March 2004 09:20, Ivo Mencke wrote: > >> > >> > >>>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? > >>> > >>> > >>Did you enable pubkey auth in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ? > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list