OpenSSH/SSH Secure Shell interoperability?

From: Tristan Miller (psychonaut_at_nothingisreal.com)
Date: 08/23/03 

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:33:00 +0200

Greetings, all.

I'm having trouble getting SSH passwordless authentication to work between a
SuSE 8.1 machine running OpenSSH_3.4p1 and another running SSH Secure Shell
2.4.0 (non-commercial version) on sparc-sun-solaris2.8. The former uses
OpenSSH key files and the latter uses SECSH format.

Getting a passwordless login from the SuSE machine to the Solaris machine is
no problem. I simply converted my public key on the SuSE machine using
ssh-keygen -e, copied the result to a file 'foo' on the Solaris machine,
and then added a line 'key foo' to the Solaris machine's
~/.ssh2/authorization file.

Problem is, I can't figure out what I need to do to get it to work the other
way around. I tried converting my Solaris DSA public key using ssh-keygen
-i and then inserting this into the SuSE machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
file, but I'm still prompted for my password when I ssh in.

Please take pity on my ignorance and let me know what I'm doing wrong. :)

Regards,
Tristan 

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