Re: SSH portable | passwordless logins

From: Alvin Sylvain (alvin.sylvain@excite.com)
Date: 12/25/01

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    From: alvin.sylvain@excite.com (Alvin Sylvain)
Date: 24 Dec 2001 22:42:14 -0800

    starzm@graffiti.net (Starz McCllelan) wrote in message news:<3172ed2.0112232314.409b39a9@posting.google.com>...
    > I have been trying (7+ hours) now to get a passwordless login working
    > between my two computers, with the pub/private key auth but I'm
    > makeing it nowhere, I have found no guides, and I don't like just
    > jumping into this question but I'm running out of patience...
    >
    > Is there a good guide, or some kind of documentation that will get me
    > through this??
    >
    > In case there's not here's step by step what I've done and what I've
    > gotten (with both systems linux/openssh3.0.2p1)
    >

    I have no idea how to read all your debug output, but I had the same
    problem on a different platform, so I'll tell you what I did that
    fixed it.

    I made sure the user's $HOME directory was Writable by User-Only.

    I was playing around with PuTTY and Pageant from my home computer,
    entering the pass-phrase into Pageant. Passwordless login worked to
    one Sparc host, but the public key was refused by the other. I
    thought I had both machines configured identically, but as it turned
    out, I had a group-writable home directory on the machine where it
    wasn't working properly.

    I'm sure there's a dozen other things that might be wrong, but this,
    at least, is one of them.

    Hope this proves helpful.

    :-)