ssh public key frustration

[Net Llama!]

On 09/13/03 10:09, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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.

Tried that, no change.

> 
> 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.

Tried that too, no change.  urgl


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