On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking > for the password. Here is what I tried: [...] I solved this now. There were two errors: 1) You need to swich on HostbasedAuthentication in the _client_! The manual page is wrong, it is not on by default. 2) You have to set PreferredAuthentications so that HostbasedAuthentication is tried before asking for passwords. Walter