On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden@iafrica.com wrote:
I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as authorized_keys2.
Why not 'authorized_keys'? 'authorized_keys2' has become deprecated ever since SSH switched to version 2 of the protocol by default.
Take care, Daniel
PS. You can use the '-v' flag to ssh to debug things better.