SSH v2 sans password prompting...

[William Stearns]

Good morning, Ken,

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote:

> 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?

	Keys in ssh protocol 2 are a pain - unlike ssh1 where the 
filenames and file format are standard.

	Head over to http://www.stearns.org/ssh-keyinstall/ .  Pull down 
the latest rpm or tar file and run.  You'll need netcat installed on the 
system - comes with current distributions as "nc...rpm"
	To run it, type "ssh-keyinstall -s the_ssh_server" .  It will
install your ssh key to the remote machine in the right format in the
right file.  You'll need to type your password on the remote box a number 
of times, but that'll be the last times you'll need to type it. :-)

	I have some additional articles and resources at:

http://www.stearns.org/ssh-keyinstall/
http://www.stearns.org/doc/ssh-intro.current.html
http://www.stearns.org/doc/ssh-techniques-two.current.html
http://www.stearns.org/fanout/

	Cheers,
	- Bill

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