Hi,
I've been using passphrases for my ssh sesion for a while. I just
recently decided to to use ssh in an automated environment and have
tried to get the connection to authenticate by using the encrypted
passphrases in authorized_keys. I get the following results:
SSH Version 1.2.26 [i386--netbsd], protocol version 1.5.
Compiled with RSAREF.
pimin: Reading configuration data /home/sgivpn/.ssh/config
pimin: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
pimin: ssh_connect: getuid 6666 geteuid 6666 anon 1
pimin: Connecting to bigbox.wan.vpn [172.16.89.45] port 22.
pimin: Connection established.
pimin: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version 1.2.26
pimin: Waiting for server public key.
pimin: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
pimin: Host 'bigbox.wan.vpn' is known and matches the host key.
pimin: Initializing random; seed file /home/sgivpn/.ssh/random_seed
pimin: Encryption type: idea
pimin: Sent encrypted session key.
pimin: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
pimin: Received encrypted confirmation.
pimin: No agent.
pimin: Trying RSA authentication with key 'sgivpn@pimin'
pimin: Received RSA challenge from server.
pimin: Will not query passphrase for sgivpn@pimin in batch mode.
Bad passphrase.
pimin: Remote: Wrong response to RSA authentication challenge.
Permission denied.
I thought that generating keys on each of the two hosts and putting those
keys in the other hosts "authorized_keys" files was the right thing to do?
Host A Host B
ssh-keygen <blah> ssh-keygen <blah> where <blah> is the passphrase
authorized_keys <---- identity.pub put the results of the keygen from
identity.pub ----> authorized_keys identity.pub into the other hosts
"authorized_keys" file.
Have I misunderstood how to do this? Can someone point me at what I might be
doing incorrectly?
Platform i386/NetBSD
ssh 1.2.26
TIA,
Paul
