SSH keygen and login problem

[Marti, Robert]

So you're trying to connect as root to the remote server?  Is passwordless root ssh allowed?

Rob Marti

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> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:07 AM
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> Subject: Re: SSH keygen and login problem
> 
> hi
> 
> the .ssh is  drwx------
> 
> i changed from 600 to 633 for authorized_keys  but still asking for password
> 
> i checked  before ssh-copy-id doesnt seem to be exit on Checkpoint SPLAT . i
> login with my normal user then use the expert command (which is like su) i
> use the root privilegs for key creating)
> 
> 2011/1/12, Abhilash abhi <abhilashck72 at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why cant u use "ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
> > user at IPaddress"(Destination)..
> > It will automatically copy the public key to ur destination. And u are
> > creating the key as root or normal user ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Johan Booysen
> > <johan at matrixsolutions.co.uk>wrote:
> >
> >> Might be worth checking the permissions on the .ssh directory and on
> >> the authorized_keys file.  That's bitten me before, and should be:
> >>
> >> drwx------      .ssh
> >> -rw-r--r--      authorized_keys
> >>
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> >> Subject: SSH keygen and login problem
> >>
> >>  Hi,,
> >>
> >> For my file transfer script i want to use scp without password. Here
> >> is nearly what i have done:
> >> 1- I logined to my Checkpoint (which is Redhat based and the one who
> >> is source) with my personal user and gave expert command  to have
> >> root permissons.
> >> 2. Changed directory to /root/.ssh and gave ssh-keygen -t dsa and
> >> created the key pairs.
> >> 3 I copied yhe public key to my home folder at the remote server
> >> like
> >>
> >> scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
> >> myuser at remoteserver:/home/myuser.ssh/authorized_keys
> >>
> >> 4. Then i copied this authorized_keys to the /root/.ssh.
> >> 5 then tried to send a sample file from my Checkpoint box to remote
> >> server with scp but it requested me to enter a password.
> >>
> >> how can i fix this ? then ill adapt my scirpt to this regards.
> >>
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