I've been working recently on streamlining a set of labs that I control. One of the steps towards this end has been the use of generated keys and passwordless ssh login. Here's my problem... If I generate an rsa public key and put it on any non-FC3 system I can use passwordless login from the Fedora machine. Currently the other lab systems are redhat 9 or Debian based. If I in turn generate an rsa key on a debian box and insert it into the authorized_keys file on the Fedora side I don't get the same result. It always blows past the publickey authentication and asks for a password. What is wrong with this picture. Both FC3 and Debian are running the same version of openssh, although the ssh_config and sshd_config files are just slightly different. In both cases I'm generating ssh version 2 keys. Is there something special that must be done on the FC3 side to accept this type of login from a non-FC3 machine? I don't have a second Fedora machine to try this experiment between two FC machines. Its quite puzzling. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks -- Sam Williams samurai@xxxxxxx http://linux.rockriver.net samiam@xxxxxxxxx ************************************************************************ I got sacked once for laughing on the job. The boss said it was "inappropriate behaviour". I looked at him and said "Fine. If I can't laugh on the job, get yourself another funeral director."
