Re: Configuring ssh on Red Hat Linux 7.3

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 05/16/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:43:33 GMT

"Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote in message
news:3CE24C9E.60CEAA6E@exit109.com...
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> I did not discover the problem, but I found a solution:
>
> I made all new keys on both my machines for both myself and for the
> system (i.e., those in ~/.ssh and /etc/ssh) and distributed them to
> all my users (i.e., myself and the system on both machines). That
> fixed it, but it is not symmetric.
>
> When valinux calls touchl, it asks for jdbeyer's password, but when
> touchl calls valinux, it asks for the valinux's passphrase. Perhaps
> there is a passphrase on the valinux system keys. If so, I suppose I
> could just take them off.

System keys absolutely should not have a passphrase. Can you look at the
iniit scripts for the Linux system and see how the system keys get generated
if one is not already present?

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