Can't scp or ssh between 2 redhat ES 3 boxes

From: ukturtle (bryn.ellis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: 4 Mar 2005 06:50:03 -0800

Hi,

I'm new to all this SSH and SCP stuff so please bear with me. I've
created a unix daemon that is monitoring a directory waiting for csv
files to be dropped into it. When a file appears I want to scp it to
another box where it will get picked up and worked on.

The monitoring of the directory is working fine and I used to be able
to supply a password when it came to the scp bit in the script and the
file would copy to the remote destination fine. I started playing
around with ssh-keygen so that I didn't have to interactively supply a
password but have never been able to get it to work. I keep getting
the following message when I try 'ssh remoteuser@remotehost' or 'scp
sfile remoteuser@remotehost:tfile' :

Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

My versions on the local mahcine are:
'ssh -V' -> OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
'uname -a' -> Linux local 2.4.21-15.EL #1 Thu Apr 22 00:26:34 EDT 2004
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

My version on the remote machine are:
'ssh -V' -> OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
'uname -a' -> Linux remote 2.4.21-15.EL #1 Thu Apr 22 00:27:41 EDT 2004
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I have no firewall configured on either machine and both of them are
standard installs of RH ES 3 with no patches.

Could someone please talk me through how to set this up.

Thanks in advance.

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