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[moseley@xxxxxxxx (Bill Moseley)]

Hello,

I'm trying to understand how keep SSH from asking for my password.  I've
been able to use the .shosts file with the known_hosts** file, but I
haven't been able to use the authorized_keys method.

**(I assume the way to setup the know_hosts file is to ssh from the remote
machine to my machine once and accept the key.)

I was unable to use the non-.shosts setup with authorized_keys file.  I did
the ssh-keygen1 command to create my local private and public keys.  I then
copied my identity.pub file to the remote machine and called it
authorized_keys.  And then I removed the .shosts file.

But, when I connect it asks for my pass phrase.  I guess I thought it
wouldn't ask for my pass phrase when using the authorized_keys setup.

Can someone clear up what I did wrong when trying to set up the
authorized_keys method of authentication?

Also, my goal is to use a news server on my ISP, but my IP number isn't one
of theirs, so I need to tunnel to their nntpd server.  I do this now by
issuing this:

   ssh1 -g -lmoseley  -L1234:nntp.my.isp.com:119 my.isp.com

And from then on I can access their news server via port 1234 (yes,
ipchains blocks that port externally).

My question is this:  Can I start that ssh tunnel via indetd?  

I'd like to be able to just connect to that port and have the ssh tunnel
started.  But I can't figure out the right way to put that in my
indetd.conf file.  Any ideas?

How come every once in a while I get this?

  Secure connection to my.isp.com refused; reverting to insecure method.
  Using rsh.  WARNING: Connection will not be encrypted.

Is there a limit to how often I can connect via ssh?

Any way to do rdist over ssh?

Thanks!

Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@xxxxxxxx


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