I agree with Holly. This took me a good 3 days with trial and error
before I got this set up to work. But use her instructions, I think
she's point you upon the right path.
When you create your key in your .ssh/ directory, it askes you to set
a passwd for it. Well it DOES not have to be the passwd for that
account. You're creating a passwd for that key. So your passwd for
that user account could be KICK and the passwd for your SSH key could
be ASS and there will be no problems.
Here's what I have in my .ssh/ directory.
[timh@yoda ~/.ssh]$ ls -la
total 24
drwx------ 2 timh timh 4096 Nov 10 12:16 ./
drwx------ 51 timh timh 4096 Jan 10 22:43 ../
-rw------- 1 timh timh 524 Nov 10 05:57 identity
-rw-rw-r-- 1 timh timh 328 Nov 10 05:57 identity.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 timh timh 2752 Jan 7 23:03 known_hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 timh timh 1212 Nov 10 13:22 known_hosts2
I ssh from/into about 15 different machines. (A lot of them are at work,
and require ssh or you're SOL.) So that's why I have a second known_hosts
file. Not sure how many that can hold but that's why there's a second one
there. Running the ssh-keygen will create the identity and identity.pub for
you.
If needed you can delete your identity and identity.pub and then create new
ones. Unless you've set some sort of setting via command line to not allow
random ssh connections, all you should have to do is then type your command.
ssh -l <userID> machine.name.com
Enter in the correct ssh passwd, which may be refered to RSA, and you should
be in.
palladium:~> huh RSA
Found nothing in the ANS database
You might want to use the -s/--searchall option
Looking up "RSA" in Free OnLine Dictionary of Computing RSA
<cryptography, company> (The initials of the authors)
1. RSA Data Security, Inc.
2. Their cryptography systems, especially RSA encryption.
The RSA algorithm was first described in the paper:
[R. Rivest, A. Shamir, L. Adleman, "A Method for Obtaining Digital
Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems". CACM 21,2; 1978]
(1995-03-21)
Try this search on OneLook / Google
So I hopefully that be a bit more helpful, but Holly was on the right track.
(I just like showing off by providing much more information then ever needed
lol) Thanx Holly, good luck Mark.
tdh
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* Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010110 19:30]:
> Tim,
>
> I've got all these packages installed and I'm not able to connect to my
> machine using ssh. When I get to the login it asks me for the passwd and
> then refuses the connection. Are there other files that need to be
> configured or something that I'm missing?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
> Linus Torvalds
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