Re: [LUG] Password-less SSH logins

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:20, Peter Walker wrote:
> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to send and receive email over an SSH tunnel to my
> > webserver.  I tried following the instructions here...
> >
> > http://www.cs.utk.edu/~england/ssh.html
> >
> > ...but I am still prompted for a password, not a passphrase.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I assume you are just trying to ssh into the remote machine at the
> moment and that is what we are trying to get to work. have you tried
> putting your public key in authorized_keys rather than authorized_keys2?

Yup, my RSA key is in both (spread-betting technique, see). ;-)

> Another suggestion would be to try getting things running without
> ssh-agent and see if that works.

I haven't got that far.  I'm just trying to ssh in and be asked for a 
passphrase, rather than a password.

Cheers,

Jon

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