-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ? From: Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:21:28 AM > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > >> 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? >> > > Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > 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. -Blake -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090720/daaa4798/attachment-0005.html>