bluethundr wrote, On 11/16/2010 04:05 PM:
hello list
I have a network mounted home directory shared between all hosts on my network:
So therefore my RSA key should already be in my authorized_keys on any host. However logging into the virtual network, I always get prompted for a password. just for the heck of it, I scp'd the key over again to one of the virtual hosts:
[bluethundr@LCENT03:~]#scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub virt1:~ bluethundr@virt1's password: id_rsa.pub 100% 381 0.4KB/s 00:00
ssh'd in:
[bluethundr@LCENT03:~]#ssh virt1 bluethundr@virt1's password: Last login: Tue Nov 16 15:57:24 2010 from 192.168.1.46
Considering that this key is internal network only and doesn't have a passphrase set (it does not traverse internet boundaries) why on earth am I being prompted for a password whenever I ssh into this machine?
thanks!
assumption 1: the private key is .ssh/id_rsa.priv (on the starting machine). assumption 2: you have to tell ssh (actually the ssh agent) which key to use. assumption 3: .ssh/id_rsa.priv is readable only by the user. assumption 4: someone has not configured the other machine to disallow keyed login (nuts, but could happen. PubkeyAuthentication no?).
have you done `ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa.priv` before you ssh?
what does ssh-add -L and ssh-add -l give?