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Re: ssh without password
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: ssh without password
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 05 Aug 2001 16:21:35 +0300
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- In-Reply-To: "Nadav Har'El"'s message of "Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:40:40 +0300"
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"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
> Try using "ssh -v" - it prints the steps it tries, and why it asks for a
> password instead of using the RSA keys.
I should have said that it faithfully told me what it was doing, but
did not explain why.
> My guess is that you probably have wrong permissions on your files: I
> think you must make sure that your authorized_keys or autorized_keys2
> file is not world readable.
Yes!!! Interesting: The man page "recommends" 600 permissions, but
does not say anything about the effect. However, I should have thought
about it. Thanks, Nadav!
> I don't understand: is it just a useless password prompt (i.e., you type
> "hello" and you can still log in), or is it simply ignoring your RSA keys
> and requesting the correct password?
The latter.
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Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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