Red Hat

Hi,

I've generated and posted pub. keys in the source system and the target. However, it is still prompting me for the password.

Steps that I have taken.

1. Generated ssh keys : ssh-keygen. It created two files.
1. .ssh/id_rsa
2. .ssh/id_rsa.pub.

2. I have scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub over to target user's .ssh folder and renames to authorized_keys.

When I'm trying to do ssh to target server/user, it is still prompting me for the pass.

Any idea why?

Try ssh -v or even -vv or -vvv to see what it thinks it's doing. I suspect it's either a different protocol version of ssh or the permissions of one of the files are wrong...

Try this command:

Code:

ssh-copy-id <hostname or IP>

Here is the result for ssh-copy-id <hostname>


/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found

ssh -v or ssh -vv/vvv does not recognize.

Then you don't have the files in the correct location(/home/username/.ssh/), or incorrectly named, or the wrong kind of file(Try making a DSA key instead), or incorrect ownership and/or permissions on ~/.ssh/ or the files themselves. ls -l ~/.ssh/

You are running ssh -v username@host, yes? not just -v.

First of all, make sure you already generate your rsa key by doing this :
ssh-keygen

and then do these 2 steps:
cd ~
ssh-copy-id .ssh/id_rsa.pub user@target-host

or these 3 steps:
ssh-agent $SHELL
ssh-add
ssh-copy-id user@target-host

in case you still need it :-)

I have been there.Please check the permissions on the directory ( probably home of user for whom you have generated keys) it has to be 700 and authorized_keys has to be 640.So if we are doing it for user xyz

Then

700 /home/xyz
700 /home/xyz/.ssh
640 /home/xyz/.ssh/authorized_keys