Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread Stephen Tait
I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's over the internet I was going to use SSH. Generated a v2 DSA public/pr

Re: Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 11 October 2004 10:43 am, Stephen Tait wrote: > I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into > one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying > to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's > over the i

Re: Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread Stephen Tait
At 17:40 11/10/2004, you wrote: I just went through this yesterday, and here is my recipe. On machine 1: 1. Create your public/private key (I used dsa): ssh-keygen -t dsa 2. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to machine 2 using ssh-copy-id: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub machine2 ssh-c