ssh public key frustration

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:38 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> I've setup & used ssh public keys many times before.  All of a sudden,
> i can't get it to work at all.  It works on the boxes where i've set
> it up in the past, but new ones just fail to work.
>
> The servers are all RH-7.3.  I thought that all that was required was:
> 0) on the client box, run "ssh-keygen -t dsa", hit enter at all the
> prompts, and i'll end up with ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
> 1) I then need to place the contents of that file on the server in
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
> 2) ssh to the server, and i shouldn't be prompted for a password.
>
> this isn't happening.  i'm still prompted for a password.  am i
> missing something obvious?

That's all I've ever done but two things to think about:

1) It seems the filename of the auth file changes from time to time.  But 
it probably has to do with the release of openssh.  Right now in my 
~/.ssh I have both an authorized_keys file and an authorized_keys2  
file.

2) Edit your dsa file and look at the very end of the record.  You might 
have a  <userid at hostname>  at the end.  You can remove the whole thing I 
think or at least the @hostname part.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         09/13/03 
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