[NBLUG/talk] OpenSSH2 with public key (no password)

ME dugan at passwall.com
Fri Jul 11 13:43:00 PDT 2003


Bob Blick said:
> ME said:
>> id_dsa and id_rsa contain v2 ssh keys. These are not what you want
>> (AFAIK.)
>>
>> if you are running openssh on your local box and the remote machine is
>> running ssh v1 then do this on your local machine:
>>
>> $ ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa1
>
> At least this time the -v option in ssh contained something worthwhile:
> "Server refused our key."
>
> All three of the machines I'm testing this on have openssh that does v2.
> Two are SuSE 7.3 machines, one is a RedHat 9.0 box.
>
> It does work without password(in SSH2 mode) from the RH9 machine to one of
> the SuSE7.3 machines, but not the other way. I can't test from the RH9 to
> the other SuSE7.3 because that SuSE box is behind a firewall.
>
> However I also can't go from one SuSE machine to the other one that
> receives the RH machine.
>
> Weird.
>
> -Bob

What did you get after doing   all   of the items suggested in my last
e-mail message? Was this the error message you write about above?

-ME




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