Re: rlogin without a password
On Thursday 02 May 2002 9:51 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Long time no hear!
>
I've been too busy in the garden :-)
> >
> > Notice the extra line: 'Creating SSH1 key'
>
> !? Perhaps you didn't purge everything? As far as I can see from
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst this should be dependent on answers
> given during configuration. Those answers are stored by debconf, which
> you presumably didn't purge. (Some day I got to find out where it is!
> RTFM time).
I think you're right. My purging wasn't particularly scientific. What most
people don't realise, is that the 'rf' - in rm -rf stands from Really
Frustrated. I'm surprised I didn't do any real damage!
>
> I presume that
> # dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low ssh
I've not tried these args. I'd tried dpkg-reconfigure on its own, and it said
everything was fine, or words to that effect.
> > and type it in, rather than from a telnet session. i.e. The telnet
> > session produces: dougie@guestw:~$ ssh-add
> > Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
>
> !?
>
> You should only need ssh-agent running on the machine where *you* sit.
I'm a bit confused by this. Surely if I'm sitting in from of the laptop
(vaiow) and want to ssh to the server (guestw) - doesn't the ssh-agent need
to be running on guestw?
> However, for processes to talk to ssh-agent, they need a couple of
> environment variables and whathaveyou. I put this in my ~/.xsession
>
> eval $( ssh-agent )
>
> (where to put this depends on how you start X. My gdm is set up to use
> xsession for me. I like the control).
I've seen references to .xsession in the man pages, but I don't have a file
called .xsession. Perhaps it's because I'm running kde. But a ps shows it's
running anyway, so I haven't prodded things too hard.
>
> Yep. I had the same problem once upon a time. Look into the -t option on
> ssh-keygen and use either 'rsa' or 'dsa'. It *is* inconsistent that
> everybody recommends ssh protocol version 2, but the default for
> ssh-keygen is to generate version 1 keys...
Ah ... that does explain things. But, fingers crossed, things are looking ok
now. Must remember not to reboot! The laptop is perched on the window-ledge
in the kitchen, getting the odd splash of oil and beer. Hadn't been rebooted
for two months until this morning!
Dougie
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