1. login into every server on the network. make keys. copy the keys to one location.
each key with a unique name
2. if you have 10 servers, you will need ten separate keys.
3. combine all those keys into one file with
4. copy that one authorized_keys file back to every server, into the .ssh directory.
The >> is there in case you decide to use an existing real authorized_keys file, otherwise just use >.
I am trying to implement passwordless authentication via ssh2. I have used the well documented technique of generating a key pair with a blank passphrase on my client machine, and installing the public key on the destination server (AIX 5.3) in the user's .ssh2 directory. I have used this technique... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can someone help me on ssh-keygen usage...?
I used ssh-keygen after which "id.pub" file was generated in system1's > .ssh directory...
I copied the same into the remote system system2 > .ssh directory as "authorized_keys" file.
Now i tried ssh connection from system 1 to system... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to login to a remote server and sftp files without password prompting. So, I created private-public key pair as follows:
user1@server1.com .ssh]$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user1/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter... (7 Replies)
hi all
I have a problem to set up the password ssh login for a non-root user. what I want to do is that non-root user in host A logs into host B without password prompted.
what I did listed as the following steps.
1. genarate a pair of keys from host A.
ssy-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f... (9 Replies)
hi,
i have tried with passwordless shh in google..
i followed the below steps ...
user:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/cantin/.ssh/id_rsa):key.txt
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
till this step i... (0 Replies)
My main concern is, i have to login into 300 linux server and all are having same userid and password. I dont want to create any key for each server to login .
Is there a way to run the shell script ? (3 Replies)
Unable to set ssh passwordless authentication
I am unable to ssh with passwordless authentication from Windows client onto UBuntu server. The ssh version on UBuntu is OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-7ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e , while SSH on Windows Client is OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k. I turned on ssh... (5 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am trying to setup passwordless ssh for root between two of my solaris servers(say A & B).
I have exchanged the public keys between both servers.
Password less ssh working fine while I try to connect from Server A to Server B.
However it is still asking password... (6 Replies)
Hey team
I have to enable password less authentication betweeen A to B server and A to C server and A to D server.
For this I generated a ssh key on server A using ssh-keygen command and copied the key using ssh-copy-id command to B, C and D server. Everything is working fine as of now but... (5 Replies)
Hello Folks,
I lost touch in ssh key gen topics.
I am in need of ssh to a server without password, kindly help me in configuring.
I have two servers,
server1 with user name apha & server1 with user name beta.
I need to ssh to the server2 from server1 with respective users,
Manually i... (3 Replies)
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dropbearkey
dropbearkey(8) System Manager's Manual dropbearkey(8)NAME
dropbearkey - create private keys for the use with dropbear(8)SYNOPSIS
dropbearkey -t type -f file [-s bits] [-y]
DESCRIPTION
dropbearkey generates a RSA or DSS format SSH private key, and saves it to a file for the use with the dropbear(8) SSH 2 server. Note that
some SSH implementations use the term "DSA" rather than "DSS", they mean the same thing.
OPTIONS -t type
Type of key to generate. Must be one of rsa or dss.
-f file
Write the secret key to the file file.
-s bits
Set the key size to bits bits, should be multiple of 8 (optional).
-y Just print the publickey and fingerprint for the private key in file.
EXAMPLE
generate a host-key:
# dropbearkey -t rsa -f /etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key
extract a public key suitable for authorized_keys from private key:
# dropbearkey -y -f id_rsa | grep "^ssh-rsa " >> authorized_keys
AUTHOR
Matt Johnston (matt@ucc.asn.au).
Gerrit Pape (pape@smarden.org) wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO dropbear(8), dbclient(1)
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
dropbearkey(8)