On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:30:08AM -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
I just wanted to let people know that I found the solution to my problem. Apparently hostbased authentication doesn't work for the root user. Creating the proper /root/.ssh/{id_dsa{,.pub},authorized_keys} files allows root to login to the other nodes without a problem. Now with hostbased working for the users, I don't have to create those same files for any new accounts that get added.
Last update, I promise! I did find out that if you set the following in sshd_config and create a proper /root/.shosts, you can have hostbased authentication work for root too: IgnoreRhosts no I made /root/.shosts point to /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv so that I didn't have to maintain two copies of the file. I hope this helps the next person that tries this... :) Bryan -- Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 bryans@aspsys.com | Fax: (303)431-7196