Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:48:58 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Need help with password-less ssh Message-ID: <20031119084858.GY18706@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:08:54PM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote: > > > > jware AT JWARE-PC ~/.ssh > > $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa > > Generating public/private rsa key pair. > > Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): > > Enter same passphrase again: > > Your identification has been saved in /home/jware/.ssh/id_rsa. > > Your public key has been saved in /home/jware/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. > > The key fingerprint is: > > > > > > Because you are generating the newer 'id_rsa/id_rsa.pub' key-pair > instead of the older 'identity/identity.pub' key-pair, you need > to copy your 'id_rsa.pub' file to the newer '.ssh/authorized_keys2' > file, instead of the older '.ssh/authorized_keys'. > > Also, check to make sure that on both the client and server computers > your '.ssh' directory is readable only by you (mode: 700), and that the > 'authorized_keys2' file on the server computer is write-able only by > you (mode: 644). Or, to make it short, read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README and use /usr/bin/ssh-host-config and /usr/bin/ssh-user-config to create your configuration. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/