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Hi all

Has anyone ever successfully set up ssh key pairs for "passwordless" logins between rhel and Solaris?
I've set it up many times before between Solaris systems but i'm having difficulty doing between the two OS's in question.
What I have done so far is append the contents of the rhel user's id_rsa.pub file to the authorized_keys file of the same user on the Solaris machine.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

What exactly is the problem you are having? Asking the forum whether anyone has ever successfully set up ssh key pairs for "passwordless" logins between rhel and Solaris does not provide many clues to your problem.

What I meant by " having difficulty" is that I can't get it to work. I'm being prompted for a password instead of being able to log in without having to put in a password.
Apologies for the possible misunderstanding.

What's the permissions on the .ssh directory, the directory it's in and of the authorized_keys file, on both servers?

Did you (i.e.) "scp" the id_rsa.pub file, or cut and paste it?

I tried a cut and paste as well as the following command:

Code:

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@server 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

The permissions on the files are as follows:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x   2 user    other        512 Nov  9 14:24 .ssh

Code:

-rw-r--r--   1 user    other        396 Nov  9 14:23 authorized_keys

There's really no reason to grant more permissions than is absolutely necessary to allow SSH to work. For this reason, I always grant 700 on the .ssh directory, and 600 on the authorized_keys (it could be less, but then editing the file get's on my nerves afterwards!).

In RHEL, you should also pay attention to the parent directory of the .ssh directory. Remove write for group, if it's set.

I asked about "cut and paste", since it might have happened that the key was pasted incorrectly over two lines, instead of one, and that would obviously break it.

I tried the same thing from another Redhat machine.

Code:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Code:

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@solaris_server 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

And still no joy

I'm thinking that it can't be done between the two different OS's.
I'm open to suggestions.