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Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?<br>
From: Akemi Yagi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com"><amyagi@gmail.com></a><br>
To: CentOS mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:centos@centos.org"><centos@centos.org></a><br>
Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:21:28 AM<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacs<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:contact@kikinovak.net"><contact@kikinovak.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for
example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla
Schroder's "Linux Cookbook" and I'm trying out the various receipts, but
the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly
dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently.
Any suggestions?
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Maybe this CentOS wiki helps?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc</a>
Akemi
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If you follow the guides step by step they usually work fine. But most
gloss over the end permissions/ownership. It is important (won't work
without it) that you ensure that the .ssh directory and its contents
are owned by the account in which these files reside... to explain it a
different way: If the authorized key files are in /home/bob/.ssh, the
.ssh directory and its files should be owned by bob. The .ssh directory
should have 700 permissions and any files within it 600.<br>
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-Blake<br>
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