Re: Public key authentication troubles

From: DharmaFog (DharmaFog_at_VirtualMachines.COM)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:06:37 -0700

Nicolas Bertolotti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm facing troubles while trying to activate connection without a password
> on a specific linux box.
>
> I've generated the keys using ssh-keygen -t rsa1
> I've then copied the public key to authorized_keys : cp .ssh/identity.pub
> .ssh/authorized_keys
> I've also changed the permissions : chmod go-rwx .ssh
>

It's not clear what you're doing. You should be generating a key pair
on the "source" machine and then transfering the public key to the
authorized_keys file on the "target" machine (the machine you're trying
to connect to.

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