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Re: passwordless ssh-login



Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Joerg Johannes um 09:25:
> Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Greg Folkert um 21:22:
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> > > Hi everybody
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in
> > > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following:
> > > I have my notebook, where my user account is called "jorg". On the
> > > university network, I have different user names on several Unix
> > > machines. I'd like to be able to log into each of these using ssh, but
> > > not typing my password every time. I tried setting up ssh as described
> > > in this document:
> > > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html
> > > but the one machine I tried so far asked me for my password even after
> > > generating keys and copying to the machine over there. Can someboy help
> > > me setting this up?
> > 
> > Are you running Debian X environment?
> > If you are they have already setup an ssh-agent for your login.
> 
> I am starting Debian X environment using gdm, but after logging in, I
> can't find ssh-agent in ps -ae. Only see it after starting it by hand.
> 
> > run: ssh-add for you various keys... and voila you are good.
> 
> jorg@notebook-johannes:~$ ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
> jorg@notebook-johannes:~$ ps -ae
> <snip>
>  1172 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
> <snip>
> 
> And now?
> 
> > You still have to enter the passphrase initially for each key, but 
> > then after which you don't.
> 
> I dont't get that far... :(

Maybe related to that: I have tried setting up passwordless login to
another machine using the steps mentioned in the micro-howto: Succeeded.
I don't have to enter my password any more. Even worse: I have to enter
my passPHRASE for the key... Aaargh. Is this because ssh-agent doesn't
listen to me?

joerg

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