Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.



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