Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 June 2005 16:00, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 17 June 2005 01:54 am, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I seem to be missing a step.
> >
> > on the server I run
> > ssh-keygen -t rsa or dsa
> >
> > I copy id_rsa.pub into authorised keys on my workstation.
> > The I try log in and it still asks for the password.
> >
> > what is missing?
>
> I believe you need to put the key into auth keys on the machine you are
> logging into...  you didn't really make it clear which machine you were
> talking about.
>
> I run
>
> ssh-copy-id -i id_dsa.pub  <user>@<machine>
>
> and it does the job.
>

Indeed it does, Thanks for the lesson Bruce, it work wonderfully. :)
 
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Chadley Wilson
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Pinnacle Micro
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