"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Rohit Dhamankar wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >Been trying to set up ssh for my Linux box. I have set my keys properly !
> >The error I get is
> >Secure connection to blah blah refused; reverting to insecure method
> >and it goes to rsh
> >
> >scp does not work;
> >Anybody has a clue ??
>
> You must be using the same version of ssh on both machines. Run
> ssh-keygen from each account you wish to use to login to a remote
> machine. Do not use a passphrase when generating the keys.
>
> Then upload your identity.pub file renamed to authorized_keys
> into the .ssh dir on the remote machine. Make sure the
> permissions on it are 600.
That is the kind of behavior you see when sshd isn't running on one
machine. You might check to make sure sshd is running on both.
