Please ask one question per post. That way there can be separate threads with good subject lines for each topic. On 14Nov2005 13:07, Michael Beattie <mtbeedee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I just installed FC4 (minimal install) and I went to do some of the | things that I do when I just install a new machine. I copy over my | id_rsa.pub so that I can ssh to it without a password. For some | reason though it always asks me for a password. I have tried changing | the sshd_config but I just cant get it to work. What is it that I | need to change in this config to make it work? What am I missing? I would suspect file and directory permissions. You have copied the id_rsa.pub file to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the new machine, yes? You also need to ensure that none of ~, ~/.ssh nor ~/.ssh/authorized_keys have write permissions for group or other. Otherwise sshd will refuse to trust the authorized_keys file. /var/log/secure logs ssh connections and rejections. It may say something useful to you. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue. - quoted by Robert L. Weber's, _Science With a Smile_, 1992
