On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 01:29:29AM -0500, James A.Treacy wrote: > I am trying to use a .shosts file to allow password-less logins when using > ssh. Both machines have a known_hosts file with the other machine > in it (automatically set up by ssh). The machine I'd like to go to has > a .shosts file which is mode 600. Yet when I use ssh to go to that machine > it still asks for a password. This seems like it should be trivial to set > up (I used .rhosts files many years ago and they always worked fine). > Anybody have any ideas?
I'd suggest a different solution: Create a local key using ssh-keygen, don't set a password and copy your .ssh/identity.pub to .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .