Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/15/2011 03:43 PM, James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I generated an ssh key on a Linux server and pushed the public key to the 
> remote server's authorized_keys files with the following command;
>
>   ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/linux_server.pub freebsd-server
>
> ...however a password is still being requested when logging in to the remote 
> bsd server. Once on the remote server I can see the key for the linux server in 
> the authorized_keys file.
>
> Any suggestions to resolve the password request?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> James

James,

  I have always done the following and it works fine:

Local Box (client):

(1) create the keys you need with 'ssh-keygen -t dsa'. (just hit return for 
empty passwords) That will create id_dsa and id_dsa.pub in ~/.ssh by default. 
Give the id_dsa.pub key a usable name used when you copy it over to the remote 
box: (i.e. cp id_dsa.pub id_dsa.pub.$HOSTNAME)

(2) rsync your key with the usable name to the remote box:

rsync -uav ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.$HOSTNAME) remote.host.tld:~/.ssh


Remote Box:

(3) ssh into the remote box and append the new usable key to 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys i.e.:

cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.$HOSTNAME) >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

** you could just do this step from the Local Box with:

ssh remote.host 'cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.$HOSTNAME) >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Don't forget to use the '>>' instead of a '>' much cussing...

You should be able to then log in from Local to Remote without a password.

Dunno why that wouldn't work for freebsd??

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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