ssh authorized_keys issue. Am I missing something

Josh Miller joshua at itsecureadmin.com
Tue Aug 1 17:18:56 UTC 2006


What is the output when you use the verbose flag with your ssh attempt?

ssh -v user at host

James Marcinek wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have just created public and private keys on my 2 systems. I have 
> scp'd the public keys of each corresponding host to their respective 
> places. I can successfully ssh from one system to the next; however 
> vice-a-versa is still prompting me with a password.
>
> I haven't used the ssh-agent before and when I try the ssh-add it 
> doesn't see the ssh-agent. I have chmod'd the authorized_keys file 
> with 600 and still the same thing. Can someone tell me what I should 
> be looking for? The 2 systems are 1 AIX and one RHEL system.
>
> From the RHEL4 system to the AIX works fine; but from the AIX to the 
> RHEL4 still prompts for a password.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>




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