I could use a fresh pair of eyes to look at this, because it has me baffled. I am attempting to setup pasword-less ssh keys (rsa) between 2 systems. As the user (admin on both systems), I have generated the keys on both the Solaris 11 and the OSX systems and using the cat command, I have copied the id_rsa.pub keys across without a problem.
$home/.ssh directories on either system have id_rsa, id_rsa.pub, authorized_keys and known_hosts files. The authorized keys file on either system contain the coresponding keys but only the known_hosts file on the OSX machine has a key in it. The Solaris known_hosts is blank. As such, I can ssh from Solaris to OSX without a password but when I ssh from the Mac to Solaris I am prompted for a password ?
I have verified that both machines are using SSH Protocol Version 2. I have not used sudo at any point of generating or copying the keys and I have checked each systems firewall settings to allow for ssh / remote login.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Have you verified that the ~/.ssh directory is 700 and authorized_keys is 600 ?
Also, the cat will not happen if ~/.ssh already exists since the mkdir -p will have a non-zero RC
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-13-2014 at 01:34 AM..
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Scrutinizer: Thank you. This was the problem on the Solaris machine. I had been looking too hard at the Mac as the cause. Post the changes made to permissions as you suggest, ssh is playing nicely now, in both directions. Thank you again.
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