On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:57, Wesley Murphy wrote: > There is a way, or there should be, to enable secure access to a machine > without having to enter a password. > > My problem is this: > > I have two machines, both running ssh, they both have static ips on the > interfaces that I will be using for this. I would like to be pre-authorised > as root to scp/ssh from one machine to the other. (i.e. without having to > type in a password) > I have browsed through ssh docs for days and have yet to come up with a > working solution. I think that it should be a very simple thing. > > Is there a way to do this? yep > > Exactly how would I do this ?
on local machine ( where connection will be initiated from) 1) as root, generate a key with no (empty) passphrase, I use dsa keys. ssh-keygen When pompted for the passphrase just hit enter. hit enter again to confirm either hit enter to accept the default key name or give one that you want. now place the pub key on the remote machine. From the local machine you can do this: cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub|ssh remotemachinename 'cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys' What this does is append the pub key from the local machine to the remote machines authorized_keys file that is looked to for check whether or not a user is allowed to log in. You will probably be prompted for a password since the key is not there yet. If it is the first time, the local ssh process will tell you that is has not seen this host before do you want to continue. type yes. you shold be jammin. ssh remotemachinename shoult put you at the command prompt. Several caveats: I believe that the default openssh sshd_config file will be fine, but specifically, /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote machine must have PermitRootLogin yes # This is the default. give it a shot. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
