Fraser, thanks very much for your help.
It is still not working though ;-( I ran ssh in verbose mode... Maybe that gives insights? Not to me. Anyway, I can always fall back to start the eclipse ide in the foreground and enter the password on the command line ;-( Cheers, Mariano mkamp@hamlet:~$ ssh -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSH_3.5p1 Debian 1:3.5p1-2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090607f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to ejbbuilder.sourceforge.net [66.35.250.209] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/mkamp/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/mkamp/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/mkamp/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.1p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.1p1 pat OpenSSH_2.*,OpenSSH_3.0*,OpenSSH_3.1* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.5p1 Debian 1:3.5p1-2 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 137/256 debug1: bits set: 1623/3191 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'ejbbuilder.sourceforge.net' is known and matches the DSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/mkamp/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: bits set: 1652/3191 debug1: ssh_dss_verify: signature correct debug1: kex_derive_keys debug1: newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: waiting for SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: newkeys: mode 0 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: done: ssh_kex2. debug1: send SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST debug1: service_accept: ssh-userauth debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: next auth method to try is publickey debug1: try privkey: /home/mkamp/.ssh/identity debug1: try pubkey: /home/mkamp/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: try privkey: /home/mkamp/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: next auth method to try is keyboard-interactive debug1: authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: next auth method to try is password [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: n Wed, 2002-12-25 at 20:58, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On December 25, 2002 02:36 pm, the fabulous Mariano Kamp wrote: > > > I am not too much into ssh. How would it be possible to use an ssh > > key? I just have control over the client side. The server side is > > sourceforge.net. > > Ah, well I don't know much about sourceforge but this should work: > > - create an ssh2 rsa key on your own computer ... > > ssh-keygen -t rsa -C sourgeforge > > - this should create two files for you, they will be ... > > ~/.ssh/id_rsa > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub > > - copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the > sourceforge server. You can do this with scp ... > > scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:.ssh/authorized_keys > > - make sure that ~/.ssh/ on the server is mode 755 > > - make sure that ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server is mode 644 or 444 > > If you've done all of the above correctly then you should be able to ssh in > without a password or passphrase prompt. Look at the manpages for sshd, it > documents the authorized_keys stuff. You can do neat things like > automatically executing commands on login based on what you put in your > authorized_keys file. > > Good luck. > > Fraser > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]