Unable to Automate SSH authentication

Remi Collet Fedora at FamilleCollet.com
Fri Jun 26 05:16:37 UTC 2009


Le 26/06/2009 07:09, Rahul Tidke a écrit :
> Hello,
>    I am configuring Fedora Core 6 and CentOS5.3 for automatic SSH
> authentication, ssh version is OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b, I  have 
> executed following commands  but still both systems prompt me for
> passwords instead of using public keys.
> 
> ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t dsa (on both hosts with empty pass phrase)
> ssh-agent $BASH (on both hosts)
> ssh-add /root/.ssh/id_dsa (on both hosts)
> created "authorized_keys" file in /root/.ssh directory on both the hosts
> and copied (exchanged) id_dsa.pub keys to it.
> SSH is open on both the hosts.
> 

Probably a permission issue on .ssh (should be 600)

Best solution to install a key on e remote host is to use the
ssh-copy-id command.

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