SSH v2 sans password prompting...
Rich Payne
rdp at talisman.mv.com
Wed Sep 4 10:28:21 EDT 2002
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:14:31 PDT
> Ken Ambrose said:
>
> >How do I get logged in to a remote host, via ssh, w/o password prompting,
> >a la the rhosts file? I can do it with SSH v1, but v2 seems to give me
> >some problems. I've plugged the public key into the authorized_keys file,
> >but no dice. Any suggestions?
>
> I think v2 forces use of the v2 protocol over the v1 protocol. You
> can create a ~/.ssh/config file which specifies 'Protocol 1,2'.
> But that's relatively insecure.
>
> The better way to do it is to create v2 keys using 'ssh-keygen -t dsa'.
> You can then place your new v2/dsa key into authorized_keys.
In the case of ssh2 I think the file is called authorized_keys2. At least
it is on my system.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
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