I know this has been resolved but I wanted to chime in. There is a little known utility on SUSE, ssh-copy-id, which copies the public key to another Linux system. I have customers running both SLES and RHEL that use ssh-copy-id.
Mike Michael Friesenegger Linux/Data Center Technical Specialist email: mfrieseneg...@novell.com cell: 303-249-0817 Novell Making IT Work As One* www.novell.com >>> On 1/5/2011 at 08:16 AM, in message <of5d2e262b.ec9bf0ee-on8525780f.005262a7-8525780f.0053e...@us.ibm.com>, Thang Pham <thang.p...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two Linux virtual servers, one running SLES11 SP1 and the other > running RHEL6. I am trying to setup the SSH key between them, so that when > I SSHed into the RHEL6 server, I do not get prompted for a password. I put > the id_rsa.pub key of my SLES11 SP1 server in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys > file on my RHEL6 server, but when I SSH into the RHEL6 server, I get > prompted for a password. Is this a bug? > > I tested this same procedure on a RHEL5.5 server, and it works fine. I > even tried the other way around and setup the SSH keys on the RHEL6 server, > so that when I SSHed into my SLES11 SP1 server from my RHEL6 server, I do > not get prompted for a password. This works. It appears that RHEL6 does > not accept a public key and always prompts for a password. > > Regards, > ------------------------------------- > Thang Pham > IBM Poughkeepsie > Phone: (845) 433-7567 > e-mail: thang.p...@us.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
