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I'm trying to set up a secure and trusted connection between 2 boxes running solaris using ssh2.

I've run ssh-keygen2 on the local box and on the remote box, created the identification file ( IdKey id_dsa_2048_a ) on the local machine and copied across the public key file from the local to the remote box and set up the authorization file to show this ( all in the $HOME/.ssh2 directories )....

But everytime I try to run ' ssh2 <user>@<localmachine>.<domain> ' I get back this :

Host key not found from database.
Key fingerprint:
xibec-giryc-gygez-saluh-vytil-kisen-metot-mokob-sepet-bapim-zixex
You can get a public key's fingerprint by running
% ssh-keygen -F publickey.pub
on the keyfile.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

If you type "yes" it asks for the password, which is obviously not what I need...

Can anybody help ?????????

Is it not ssh remotemachine ??

make sure the .ssh directory on the remote machine has permissions of 700 and the authorized_keys file has permissions of 600.

Oops, that what I meant.....



I've checked the permissions and they are all fine.

This is driving me nuts, it's probably something simple but I can'put my finger on it...

OK, making some head way here...

I can now access the remote machine without a password, but it now asks me for the Passphrase for the key everytime I log in.

I'm assuming this is a permission on a file that needs changing somewhere...

Any ideas anyone ??

This means that when the key was generated, a pass-phrase was used. You have to regenerate the key, and when it asks for the pass-phrase, just press enter. This will mean an empty pass-phrase and a non-interactive script.