So, what do I do in protocol 2 that's different from what I did originally?
"Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Kern, Thomas > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Monday, August 4, 2003 1:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ssh connect no password > > That sounds like openssh-3.4p1-77 is defaulting to Protocol 2 only. My > security people made me make that switch. Now I secify DSA when I do a > keygen and put the public keys in authorized_keys2. > > /Thomas Kern > /301-903-2211 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 16:01 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: ssh connect no password > > > > > > As part of my remote maintenance system for managing many > > linux images under VM (See my talk at SHARE in DC, Session > > 9343) I make heavy use of ssh. In order not to have to > > provide a password each time I update a file or run a > > command, I've been using ssh's trusted-server authentication > > method with public and private keys. Unfortunately, since > > going to SLES8, I haven't been able to get it to work. > > > > Under SLES7, I used openssh-2.9.9p2-67. to allow file > > transfers and command usage without passwords, I just did the > > following: > > > > (1) copied the remote file /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub and > > appended it to the local file /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts and also to > > /root/.ssh/known_hosts > > > > (2) did ssh-keygen from root. > > > > (3) copied the local file /root/.ssh/identity.pub to the > > remote file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. > > > > That's it! > > > > Now on SLES8, with openssh-3.4p1-77, this process doesn't > > work any more. ssh works, but it requires me to manually > > input the password each time. For one thing, ssh_keygen > > requires me to specify if it's dsa or rsa. Also, there's a > > second package there, openssh-askpass-3.4p1-61. > > > > Any ideas what I'm missing? > > > > "Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. > > Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover > > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 > > VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company > > > >
