On 5/20/04 5:24 PM, "Edward" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > OK, I need some more clarification here please. After reading all the > suggestions, I'd like to set up shared key authentication. You mean, Public key authentication. > After reading mountains of stuff on the internet, I can't get this to work. > > The client is PuTty if that makes a difference. > > 1> Used PuTtygen.exe to create a key pair with a pass phrase. > 2> saved both keys into a folder on the client PC. > 3> Copied the PUBLIC key to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys on the ssh server > (FC1 with all updates). Make sure that the public key is in the format ssh-rsa [key string] <comment - usuall user@host> I know puttygen will by default create a different style key, you can manually convert it to the format above. It needs to be on one line. Also, make sure ~/.ssh is mode 0700 and authorized_keys is 0600. Other permissions can cause problems (not sure if this is the case these days, but I do it anyway because you don't want other people looking in your .ssh dir anyway). Nathan. -- Nathan Ollerenshaw - Unix Systems Engineer ValueCommerce - http://www.valuecommerce.ne.jp/
