Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:41 -0400, Roberto Sanchez
> <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
>
>
> > In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or
> > id_rsa.pub, if you use RSA authentication) from the host on which
> > the login attempt will originate.
>
>
> Is it actually necessary to use the key? In other words, cannot one
> opt to not do DSA or RSA based authentication and just do host- based
> authentication (I believe that is what it is called)? 
>
> I don't see any mention of this in the documentation.

I know that host-based authentication is possible.  I believe the
remote host's public key goes somwhere in your /etc directory.

Read RadHat's Reference Guide:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/

There is a section on SSH configuration which talks about host-based
authentication.

-Roberto

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