On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 06:57 -0600, David Christensen wrote: > If pw less access is something you prefer use a kerberos based service like FreeIPA/RedhatIPA. No need for ssh keys, and pw aren't stored locally. You can log in as a regular user and sudo su - to root, which can be done during ssh login: ssh -t user at host sudo su - Thanks David. My problem happened because I wrong prefixed the server's key with id_rsa. Have since changed to DSA keys and everything works well. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.