On 19/08/05, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:

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I might be going crazy...

perhaps my notes and memory has failed me but it ain't working...

on host machine...

ssh-keygen -t rsa ssh-keygen -t dsa

scp *pub root@remote:/root

on remote machine...

cat /root/id_{r,d}sa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorizedkeys_2

but it still asks for password when I try to connect as root from remote host

logsAug 18 15:51:13 srv1 sshd[1630]: Accepted password for root from ::ffff:192.168.2.2 port 51728 ssh2 on /var/log/secure on host machine show connection but as an ipv6 address...is this the problem?

Aug 18 15:51:13 srv1 sshd[1630]: Accepted password for root from ::ffff:192.168.2.2 port 51728 ssh2

Where am I going wrong?

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correction...

keys were added to authorized_keys2

Just ~/.ssh/authorized_keys should suffice. Of course dependant on the sshd_config on the remote machine but if it's in the default RHEL/CentOS state just authorized_keys will do.

Double check the permissions on ~/.ssh/ and ~/.ssh/authorized keys[2], they should be 700 and 600 respectively again unless you've veered from default configurations. Also have a look for ~/.ssh/config on the client, make sure there are no specific entries for "remote" disabling key-based auth.

If nothing else jumps out at you, temporarily up the logging level of sshd on the server.

LogLevel DEBUG3

... should provide plenty of info.

Will.