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Re: ssh and paswordless login between 2 woody machines



On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:14:12PM -0500, stan wrote:
> I have two woody machines, that I want to be able to use ssh to login from
> one to the other without having to enter my password every time.
> 
> I added the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub on the machien I am loging in
> FROM to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the machine that I am loging in TO, and
> made certain that the permissions of it were r-- . 
> 
> But whn I do ssh to_machine, I'm still prompted for a password.
> 
> How can I fix this?

Check the permissions on ~/.ssh ... if that dir is world writable, ssh
won't do key-based authentication.

Otherwise, use one or more "-v" option with ssh to get a more
verbose description of what is going on.

-- 
Nathan Norman - Micromuse Ltd.  mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com
Gil-galad was an Elven-king.            |  The Fellowship
Of him the harpers sadly sing:          |        of
the last whose realm was fair and free  |     the Ring
between the Mountains and the Sea.      |  J.R.R. Tolkien

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