On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Kevin Wood wrote:
> If you look at the command ssh-keygen, this is what you will need.
>
> Run the command ssh-keygen as the user you will be logging into the
> remote machine with.
> This will produce a identity key and an identity.pub key located in the
> ~/.ssh/ directory. Now on the remote machine, make a directory called
> ~/.ssh with the same user name again. Copy the identity.pub key to
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Then try to login again. This should allow you
> remote access without a password. If I am mistaken or have missed any
> steps, would someone let me know. Thanks
>
> Kevin
The step you missed is permissions on the .ssh directory and
.ssh/authorized_keys. Set both to be rw for the user only:
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh checks the permissions before checking the keypair and will fail if
they are too open.
Bill Carlson
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