[rhn-users] SSH in BatchMode

[Vikas Rawat]

Thanks guys for the overwhelming response. Finally I got it working. For
the interested people, the issue was with the ownership of the home
directory for the root account. See below
 
- EARLIER was
drwx------   9 vikas.rawat   coe            4096 May 23 14:59 coe

- MODIFIED to 
drwx------   9 root          coe            4096 May 23 15:00 coe

This works. 

Regards,
Vikas

Here is a clearly defined process from one of my colleagues (Prashant
Lal) for doing the same.
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Host machine: rhythm
Remote machine: blrqmail

1. Generate key on host machine. This is for the user id 'lalp', change
to the uid you want to create a key for

[lalp at rhythm .ssh]$ ssh-keygen -d
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/lalp/.ssh/id_dsa):  "press
ENTER here"
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
"press ENTER here"
Enter same passphrase again:
"press ENTER here"
Your identification has been saved in /home/lalp/.ssh/id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/lalp/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
2d:c3:13:b8:38:65:dc:f7:cd:a3:d5:80:4e:32:54:93 lalp at rhythm

Now your keys are generated. We have not given any passphrase instead we
have pressed the enter because to perform the automated scripted
operations on the remote machine. 


2. Copy the id_dsa.pub file as authorized_keys from the host machine to
remote machine (into the home folder of the uid i.e.
<blrqmail>/home/lalp in this case)

[lalp at rhythm .ssh]$ scp /home/lalp/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
lalp at blrqmail:/home/lalp/.ssh/authorized_keys

CAUTION: This would overwrite your existing file. If you want to add to
your file, copy to some other location and append to this. Try this on
the host machine
[lalp at rhythm .ssh]$ scp /home/lalp/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
lalp at blrqmail:/home/lalp/.ssh/lalp.rhythm.id_dsa.pub
On the remote machine
[lalp at blrqmail .ssh]$ cat lalp.rhythm.id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys

Note: If you are logging into the remote machine for the first time
using SSH, you will be asked to save the remote machine's certificate.
Please accept and save it.

3. Now check the permision on the remote machine for .ssh and
authorized_keys

[lalp at blrqmail lalp]$ chmod -R 600 /home/lalp/.ssh
[lalp at blrqmail .ssh]$ ls -lrt
total 8
-rw-r--r--    1 lalp     lalp          601 May 23 14:29 authorized_keys

[lalp at blrqmail .ssh]$ ls -la ../ |grep .ssh
drwx------    2 lalp     lalp         4096 May 23 14:30 .ssh
[lalp at blrqmail .ssh]$

4. Log in from the host machine to remote machine 

[lalp at rhythm .ssh]$ ssh blrqmail
[lalp at blrqmail lalp]$

You should be logged in straightaway with out any password.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sander Steffann [mailto:s.steffann at computel.nl] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:47 PM
To: 'Red Hat Network Users List'
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] SSH in BatchMode

Hello,

> I think the directorio must be /etc/.ssh/ NO /etc/ssh/...

This is wrong. The system-wide ssh configuration is in /etc/ssh/. The
user's ssh configuration is in ~/.ssh/.

- Sander


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