Format recovered. A newline every 72-75 characters would be more polite. > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:29 -0700 > From: Gavin Spomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I hope this isn't an invalid topic for this list. I'm on so many lists > and I hate to join another one just to get help on one > thing. Apologies if it's not. > > I am able to use ssh-keygen to generate keys so that I can ssh from my > Mac to any of my SuSE systems or ssh from my Mac to any of my FreeBSD > systems, without having to enter my password. When I try the same > thing from a SuSE system to a FreeBSD system, (I.E. I run "ssh-keygen > -t rsa" on the SuSE system, then copy the id_rsa.pub to my > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the FreeBSD system) I get the following > message when ssh-ing to the FreeBSD system: > > Enter passphrase for key '/home/myusername/.ssh/id_rsa': > > ... and I have to enter my password. I've Googled, but can't seem to > find the answer to my dilemma. Is it generally kind of a pain to do > this between platforms? I'm finally very comfortable on FreeBSD and am > starting to really get annoyed with SuSE. :(
It's not asking for your password. It's asking for your passphrase to decrypt your private key. Are you running an ssh-agent on the Suse system? If this does not point you in the right direction, try running ssh -v. This MAY give us an idea of the problem, though the debug data from the server would be better. MacOS X uses the FreeBSD user environment, so it should work the same under FreeBSD as it does on the Mac. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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