[FC5] how to use public key login for ssh?

Scott R. Godin scott.g at mhg2.com
Fri Jul 7 15:34:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:08 +0800, Man-Chi Leung wrote:
> > hi ,
> > 
> > sorry that I am a newbie to fedora FC5, I used to be in Solaris environment.
> > i could not configure correctly for public key ssh login as I used to 
> > do in Solaris.
> > 
> > my step:
> > 
> > 1) cat my public key and put in my $fedora_user/.ssh/authorized_keys
> > 
> > 2) configure fedora's /etc/ssh/sshd_config, uncomment the following 2 lines
> > 
> > PubkeyAuthentication yes
> > AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
> > 
> > 3) restart sshd with /sbin/service sshd restart  or restart fedora ...
> > 
> > However, ssh login still prompts me for password.....
> > 
> > did i miss anything ? pls help!!
> > 
> > ~manchi
> > 
> > 
> It is not clear to me that you understand that the public key from the
> sending machine (the one issuing the ssh) is put in the authorized keys
> of the targeted machine.
> 
> Also where you put it depends of what coding the key was generated in.
> rsa1, rsa or dsa. 

It's also possible that while he may be running ssh-agent on the
machine, he may not have yet run ssh-add to add the key to the agent to
facilitate passwordless login (not comepletely -- you still have to give
your master password to ssh-add) 



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