ssh allowing root login with no password (Solved)

[Carl G. Riches]

On Tue, 10 May 2011, Steven Buehler wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
>> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:28 AM
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: RE: ssh allowing root login with no password (Solved)
>>
>> Steven Buehler wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Strangest thing I ever saw.  The problem is solved.  The private key
>>> is the key that I installed into my SecureCRT.  If I log into the
>>> server with that key from SecureCRT, then login to my private server
>>> and try to ssh
>> to the
>>> server where the public key is installed from my private server that
>>> is in a different tab in SecureCRT, it uses the private key on my
>>> local Windows7 laptop.  I have never seen this before.
>>
>> Question: how do the other machines do authentication? Could it be that
>> you go to log in, and it authenticates you from a root server?
>>
>>         mark
>>
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> No, this is the first time I have ever run across this.  After some testing,
> the only thing I can come up with is that once I log in with SecureCRT to
> the server, I can open other tabs in SecureCRT to other servers and it will
> use the private key that I have saved in my SecureCRT.  This issue does not
> happen if I use putty.
>

Does SecureCRT start a process that stores your keys?  SSH Tectia Client 
does this.

Carl