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prompting for passwords even i configured ssh password less authentication

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http://www.unix.com – There are two servers : 1. Site 2. Testing from site server i want to connect testing server with ssh password less authentication. i generated public and private keys with ssh-keygen -t rsa on site server. cat id_rsa >> authorized_keys cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys i appended id_rsa.pub ( public key site server ) to authorized_keys ( testing server ) with below command . ssh oracle@testing.fgho.com "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub am i missing some point in performing procedure for ssh password less authentication ? because it (HowTos)

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Submitted by ziyi on 10/09/2012

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I am having difficulties logging in to a VPS running CentOS 5.5 using Public key authentication. I can log in to both a standard user account and the root account using password authentication.

I have a 12.10 server setup in a virtual machine with its network set to bridged (essentially will be seen as a computer connected to my switch).

I installed opensshd via apt-get and was able to connect to the server using putty with my username and password.

I then set about trying to get it to use public/private key authentication.

I am trying to connect to my linux server using the following:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

I then do:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh myusername@myserver_ip 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

I then go to my remote server and see that a "authorized_keys" file has been created. However when i try doing, "ssh myusername@myserver_ip", it is still prompting me for a password?

Why???

Not sure if the question I'm asking is correct but basically I wanted to automate this process

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@example.com:~/ ssh username@example.com mkdir .ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys rm id_rsa.pub chmod go-w ~ chmod 700 ~/.ssh chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

So I thought I could create a shell script and put it in my .bash_profile like thi

Hi

I have a system PRIMARY where I can push or pull files to/from STANDBY using scp. I can also ssh without entering a password.

On the STANDBY system if I try and use scp or ssh it asks for a password.

I checked in ~/.ssh and there was no authorized_keys file on the PRIMARY server.

I'm done setting up ssh login using public/private key pair. I have my id_rsa (private key) in my ~/.ssh directory and also still have id_rsa.pub (public key) in the same directory.

I am trying to setup a password-less SSH configuration between two machines and am having trouble. There are a ton of howtos out there that I have followed and have had no success. Here are the steps that I've taken

Generate the authentication keys on the client.

I lack a lot of knowledge regarding the subject so please excuse me if my question is very ignorant.

I just started out with RSA key authentication to my test-server.

Here are the steps I did on my local computer:

ssh-keygen -t rsa cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | ssh root@remotehost.com -p 1234 "cat > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

When I do a ssh root@remotehost.com -p 1234 it still asks for the password :o

root@remotehost.com's password:

Why is it so? I already added it to the authorized keys but it still asks for the password.