On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:11 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:08 +0800, Man-Chi Leung wrote: > > hi , > > > > sorry that I am a newbie to fedora FC5, I used to be in Solaris environment. > > i could not configure correctly for public key ssh login as I used to > > do in Solaris. > > > > my step: > > > > 1) cat my public key and put in my $fedora_user/.ssh/authorized_keys > > > > 2) configure fedora's /etc/ssh/sshd_config, uncomment the following 2 lines > > > > PubkeyAuthentication yes > > AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > > > > 3) restart sshd with /sbin/service sshd restart or restart fedora ... > > > > However, ssh login still prompts me for password..... > > > > did i miss anything ? pls help!! > > > > ~manchi > > > > > It is not clear to me that you understand that the public key from the > sending machine (the one issuing the ssh) is put in the authorized keys > of the targeted machine. > > Also where you put it depends of what coding the key was generated in. > rsa1, rsa or dsa. It's also possible that while he may be running ssh-agent on the machine, he may not have yet run ssh-add to add the key to the agent to facilitate passwordless login (not comepletely -- you still have to give your master password to ssh-add)
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