[CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

Thu Jan 27 16:08:14 UTC 2011
David <david at adurotec.com>

On 01/27/2011 09:00 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> 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.
>
Ya sorry I was jumping on the band wagon about not using ssh-keys with 
the root login or allowing root login at all.  Its usually a dir/file 
permissions thing when it comes to using keys.

You should look into getting away from using ssh-keys unless absolutely 
necessary and look at centralized authentication/authorization; of 
course if your env is large enough to warrant it.  Kerberos can provide 
the same sort of password less access as ssh-keys.

Anyway good luck.

David