Look again at fpmurphy's suggestion. The ssh daemon attempts to be secure, and doesn't always like world-readable files, especially files that shouldn't be, like ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 or ~/.ssh/id_dsa.
Check your permissions. Also, if your home directory is mounted or linked from another location, I've seen issues. Please provide the following from the server-side: ls -ld ~/.ssh ls -l ~/.ssh/auth* ls -l ~/.ssh/id* cd ~/.ssh; pwd -P
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Also, look into the ssh-copy-id script that is shipped with recent version of OpenSSH - it copies the identity file you specify and sets the proper permissions.
Hello all,
I would like to know if anyone had ever set up a network in which they used DHCP and OPENSSH with no password. I can configure my ssh files to allow me to enter any machine without a password as long as I have generated the public and private keysa nd store them in my .ssh/aut... ... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have the necessity to run a korn shell on a remote server (both HP-UX servers) using the ssh command.
The sintax that I use is
ssh -l <remote user> <IP address of remote host> command(ksh script)
Pressing enter I need to set the password of the remote user. Is it possible to... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus
I have a few Sol 5.9 servers and i have enabled password less authentication between them for my user ID. Often i have found that when my password has expired,the login fails.
Resetting my password reenables the keys.
Do i need to do something to avoid this scenario or is this... (2 Replies)
Please help me
I want connect to orther server using ssh. But I need to transfer password also without entering when it is prompts. Please help me. (1 Reply)
I am working on Solaris 10 Sparc.
While ssh trust relation building for SUN-CLUSTER on server,
I am facing issue.
I can log in from server2 to serer1 direactly
but when i log in to server1 from server2 it prompts password.
root@app1 # ssh app2
Last login: Wed Jul 27 14:08:14 2011... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to generate ssh without having to type a password.
I have done this on numerous occasions using the procedure below and it has worked fine but not on this occasion.
user1@sys1:ssh-keygen -t dsa -N ""
<press enter for any questions>
user1@sys1: ll .ssh/id_dsa.pub... (16 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I have a specific requirement where I need to provide password to ssh and sftp in my script on Solaris.
I know password-less connection is the way without password but in my case, I cant use the same due to some limitations.
Please let me know if we can tweak it. (7 Replies)
Hello Experts,
when I am trying to connect my target server through sftp after creating ssh password less setup, it is asking for passowrd to connect.
to setup this I followed below process:
-->generated keys by executing the command "ssh-keygen -t rsa"
-->this created my .ssh directory... (9 Replies)
Hi there.
I am fully aware of the security implications, but is there a way give a user password with the rsh and/or ssh commands?
Such as: ssh user@192.168.0.56 -p password
Or pass a config file to the command containing a password?
I'm looking after a cluster and trying to use PSSH,... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: MuntyScrunt
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pam_ssh
PAM_SSH(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PAM_SSH(8)NAME
pam_ssh -- authentication and session management with SSH private keys
DESCRIPTION
The SSH authentication service module for PAM, pam_ssh provides functionality for two PAM categories: authentication and session management.
SSH Authentication Module
The SSH authentication component verifies the identity of a user by prompting the user for a passphrase and verifying that it can decrypt at
least one of the user's SSH login keys using that passphrase.
The following options may be passed to the authentication module:
debug syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.
use_first_pass If the authentication module is not the first in the stack, and a previous module obtained the user's password, then
that password is used to decrypt the user's SSH login keys. If this fails, then the authentication module returns
failure without prompting the user for a passphrase.
try_first_pass Similar to the use_first_pass option, except that if the previously obtained password fails to decrypt any of the SSH
login keys, then the user is prompted for an SSH passphrase.
try_first_pass has no effect if pam_ssh is the first module on the stack, or if no previous modules obtained the
user's password.
allow_blank_passphrase Allow SSH keys with no passphrase.
If neither use_first_pass nor try_first_pass is specified, pam_ssh will unconditionally ask for an SSH passphrase.
In addition to the above authentication procedure, all standard SSH keys (identity, id_rsa, id_dsa) for which the obtained password matches
will be decrypted.
SSH Session Management Module
The SSH session management component initiates sessions by starting an SSH agent, passing it any SSH login keys it decrypted during the
authentication phase, and sets the environment variables accordingly.
The SSH session management component terminates the session by killing the previously started SSH agent by sending it a SIGTERM.
The following options may be passed to the session management module:
debug syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.
INFORMATION LEAKS
Be careful with the using the try_first_pass option when pam_ssh is the first authentication module because it will then leak information
about existing users without login keys: such users will not be asked for a specific SSH passphrase, whereas non-existing users and existing
users with login keys will be asked for a passphrase.
FILES
$HOME/.ssh/identity
$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa OpenSSH DSA/RSA keys decrypted by pam_ssh.
$HOME/.ssh/login-keys.d/ Location of (possibly symbolic links to) OpenSSH DSA/RSA keys used for authentication and decrypted by pam_ssh.
/var/log/auth.log Usual log file for syslog(3)SEE ALSO ssh-agent(1), syslog(3), pam.conf(5), pam(8).
AUTHORS
Andrew J. Korty <ajk@iu.edu> wrote pam_ssh. Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote the original OpenPAM support code. Mark R V Murray wrote the original
version of this manual page. Jens Peter Secher introduced the login-key concept.
BSD November 26, 2001 BSD