RSA & DSA Authentication - need help

From: Dusty Culler (dustyculler_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/12/04

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    Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:47:28 -0800 (PST)
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com

    Hi everyone,

    I'm trying to setup a backup solution using rsync
    tunneled over ssh and I'm having a problem getting the
    ssh part working. I would appreciate any help.

    I've installed Fedora Core 1 on two systems that I'll
    call client and server.

    I performed the following actions:

    client:
            login as myuser
            cd .ssh
            ssh-keygen -t rsa
            ssh-keygen -t dsa
            scp *.pub myuser@server:~/.ssh/

    server:
            login as myuser
            cd .ssh
            cat *.pub >> authorized_keys

    client: ssh server -l myuser

    For some reason I still get prompted for a password.
    I did not type a passphrase when I generated the keys
    as I'm trying to get this to work from a script that
    will be run from cron. (Is there a better way?)

    I've read several tutorials and tried everything I can
    find from searching the web for 8+ hours.

    Am I missing something here?

    Thanks,

    Dusty

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