Solaris

I would like to ask if you have a procedure on how to upload multiple private key for multiple users in solaris? I was only able to add one but when I tried to add several key, it fails.

example:
a. user1: user1.ppk
b. user2: user2.ppk

Each with different password on the server. Pls advise

you should not be uploading a users private key. in fact, ideally you should not have access to their private key. the only key that should be uploaded is the public key. Unless you have the users password then you cannot upload their public key when authenticating as them. you could create a script and push they keys to the servers but this would need to run as root or have a privileged way to write to the users directory.

oops sorry..yes i meant was the public key..Do I need to put their key on their corresponding home directory? if yes, no need to generate ssh key on the remote server right?

user1.. upload public key on /home/user1/.ssh

cd /home/user1/.ssh
ls
authorized_keys
vi authorized_keys (to paste the ssh-rsa right? )

Is that it? pls advise

That is correct. no need to generate a key for them.

looks like your using OpenSSH so

1) mkdir /home/user1/.ssh (make sure perms are 700 and owner is that user)
2) cat user1.pub.key >> /home/user1/.ssh/authorized_keys (make sure permissions are 600 to avoid issues)

that should work.

I tried the above but when I login and use my private key it says :server refused our key.

-rw------- 1 root root 227 Sep 22 13:28 authorized_keys
drwx------ 2 lhareigh other 512 Sep 22 13:40 .ssh

can you help what other things should I check inside the remote servr? im using putty.

move the file authorized_keys in .ssh folder

yes it's under .ssh folder .i forgot that the owner of authorized_keys is root..sorry..thank you

another question bt
a. do I need to do this for all servers? or maybe a script right? if yes, I can just do it on any server right?

b. i wanted users to login using private key. if they login w/o key, system will not allow it.

thanks