BURLET Frederic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > > > I have a Debian potato + Progeney + 2.4.9 kernel machine. I have installed > > teh ssh package. I have installed openssh on the HP's on the network. I can > > ssh between the machines, but I'm still prompted for a password. > > > > How can I elimnate this prompt? > > From man pages: > > ssh implements the RSA authentication protocol automatically. The user > creates his/her RSA key pair by running ssh-keygen(1). This stores the > private key in $HOME/.ssh/identity and the public key in > $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub in the user's home directory. The user should > then copy the identity.pub to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in his/her home > directory on the remote machine (the authorized_keys file corresponds to > the conventional $HOME/.rhosts file, and has one key per line, though the > lines can be very long). After this, the user can log in without giving > the password. RSA authentication is much more secure than rhosts authenĀ > tication.
Or, if it's a newer version off ssh, it uses protocol 2 by default. Check the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ssh. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>