If SSH still denies passwordless... RE: [wplug] sshd config -- no password?

[Ryan W. Frenz]

I'll keep that in mind, but the instructions Nathan gave seem to be 
working fine.

Ryan

Patryk Laurent wrote:

>If the passwordless ssh still doesn't work after the fine instructions you
>received, you might need to do this too (I had to):
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>"The SSH server is paranoid, and will refuse to honour your
>authorized_keys settings if they have poor file permissions, so you
>should lock down your files and directories:
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>  username at server$ cd $HOME
>  username at server$ chmod go-w .
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>  username at server$ cd $HOME/.ssh
>  username at server$ chmod 700 .
>  username at server$ chmod 600 *
>"
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>Patryk
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>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Ryan Frenz wrote:
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>>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:19:21 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Ryan Frenz <rfrenz at andrew.cmu.edu>
>>Reply-To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
>>To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
>>Subject: RE: [wplug] sshd config -- no password?
>>
>>Thanks a bunch, that's exactly what I needed.
>>
>>Ryan
>>
>>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Embery, Nathan wrote:
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>>>Here's the notes I jotted down the last time I did this on FreeBSD and
>>>Solaris
>>>They may not be exact, but close enough to get you started.
>>>Nate
>>>
>>>Log into your freebsd box
>>>run #ssh-keygen -t dsa
>>>
>>>This will create your id_dsa and id_dsa.pub files in ~/.ssh/
>>>
>>>Now copy your id_dsa.pub to the target machine
>>>
>>>scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub ip_or_hostname:/home/nate/xfilename
>>>
>>>then log in to that box
>>>
>>>ssh ip_or_hostname
>>>
>>>enter your password for the last time ;-)
>>>
>>>copy the source machines public key into your authorized_keys2 file (you may
>>>need to touch it)
>>>
>>>touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>>>cat xfilename >> authorized_keys2
>>>
>>>exit your shell, returning to the source machine
>>>
>>>test with ssh nate at ip_or_hostname
>>>
>>>repeat this process using the target machine as the source machine
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Ryan Frenz [mailto:rfrenz at andrew.cmu.edu]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:06 PM
>>>To: wplug at wplug.org
>>>Subject: [wplug] sshd config -- no password?
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm looking for a way to allow ssh connections from certain machines
>>>without requiring passwords.  I have a script that connects to my machine
>>>and checks if a certain process is running.  I want this to occur
>>>automatically, without having to enter a pwd each time it connects.  Is
>>>there a way I can specify to sshd a list of hosts that don't have to
>>>authenticate (while still requiring others to)?  I'm guessing this has to
>>>do with specifying host keys to sshd_config -- but I don't even know where
>>>to start.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Ryan
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