I have been able to succesfully install and run 2.0.13 on RedHat 6.0. When it asks you for a passphrase, you may deliberately fail to provide the right one. So it will fall down to host authentication, and then you can provide the right password and everithing should work as if you have provided the passphrase the first time you were ask for.
There is also an option in the configuration file for sshd, AllowedAuthentication. You can set this to password and as this is the only allowed authentication method, it will only ask you for a password and not for a passphrase.
Good Luck.
Manuel
Derald Metzger wrote:
> From: Noah White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm trying to run 2.0.13 on RedHat 5.2 and 6.0. In either case, after
> following the directions to the letter in the README, SSH2.QUICKSTART
> and man pages I can not get host authentication to work. It
> continually asks me for a passphrase. Is this a know bug in the code
> or docs or am I a complete moron? Suggestions are appreciated from
> those who have sucessfully set this up. Thanks,
>
Noah,I'm not familiar with 2.x, just 1.x.
With 1.x you can confgure to use RSA host id with user
.rhosts or .shosts. Alternately you can use RSA user
authentication using ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to hold the
public half of the keys for users you wish to allow in
without a pass phrase.Should be something similar with 2.x
Derald
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