Re: Help with ssh, please
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed
> teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can
> ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password.
>
> How can I elimnate this prompt?
From man pages:
ssh implements the RSA authentication protocol automatically. The user
creates his/her RSA key pair by running ssh-keygen(1). This stores the
private key in $HOME/.ssh/identity and the public key in
$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub in the user's home directory. The user should
then copy the identity.pub to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in his/her home
directory on the remote machine (the authorized_keys file corresponds to
the conventional $HOME/.rhosts file, and has one key per line, though the
lines can be very long). After this, the user can log in without giving
the password. RSA authentication is much more secure than rhosts authen
tication.
I hope that's the answer...
Fred.
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