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# 8  
Old 01-07-2010
Hi

I think u have interpreted me wrong.
My requirement is that when first user "su" to second user,it should not prompt for password.

I have copied the public key of first user into the authorized_keys file of second user and when i "ssh" from 1st user to 2nd user,password is not prompted.
Bur when i "su" to second user from 1st user,password is being prompted.

I hope this clarifies.

Gurus,

Any others who have different ideas.

Thanks
HG
# 9  
Old 01-07-2010
su is completely different from SSH. They're not even part of the same software.

su will authenticate a user against the system authorization scheme (usually using PAM), and it will always ask for a password, on every invocation.

SSH, in addition to PAM, can use a public key authentication scheme. But that's specific to SSH, and can not easily be applied to other things.

If you want to only run certain commands as another user, take a look at sudo and the NOPASSWD option.
# 10  
Old 01-07-2010
If you wan't passwordless login between users on the same host, just have these user's keys being added to each other ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file (I understand you already did that) and run "ssh otheruser@localhost" instead of "su otheruser" to switch accounts
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