get ssh to connect with out password

[Douglas Phillipson]

I've done this many times on RH9.  It really is this easy:

Setting up ssh bidirectional secure root access without a root password 
required between machines:

Assumptions:

Machine A = 192.168.0.40
Machine B = 192.168.0.41

On machine A create a key and send it to machine B:

ssh-keygen -t rsa  (Just hit return three times here)

cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 192.168.0.41  'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

On machine B  create a key and send it to machine A:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 192.168.0.40  'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

Test your ssh config by attempting to ssh to the other machine.  If you 
don't get a password prompt, you were successful.

To do it as a user just substitute your home dir in place of root's home 
dir.  Make sure the .ssh dir exists in your home dir.  It won't unless 
you have ssh'd somewhere.

DSP

dbrett wrote:
> No luck on both accounts.  The one thing I noticed about the
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config file is default after installation, is almost
> everything is commented out.  I took the comments out and restarted sshd.
> 
> david
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tuesday 06 April 2004 03:51 pm, dbrett wrote:
>>
>>>I have made an attempt to have ssh connect without requiring password.  I
>>>tried on my own with out success.  I found this site which I thought had
>>>pretty good instructions.  Unfortunately it didn't work on RH9.  I tried
>>>both ssh2 options.
>>
>>- Try copy the file .ssh/authorized_keys2 to .ssh/authorized_keys in the 
>>machine you're SSH-ing to.
>>
>>- check that you have the following in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine 
>>you're SSH-ing to:
>>
>>RSAAuthentication yes
>>
>>This is the default, BTW.
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>RDB
>>
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>>Reuben D. Budiardja
>>Department of Physics and Astronomy
>>The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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> 

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