[NBLUG/talk] OpenSSH2 with public key (no password)

[E Frank Ball]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:30:34PM -0400, Bob Blick wrote:
} 
} Did it, still no luck. Private key resides in client machine as
} ~/.ssh/id_dsa correct?

"client"?  Which one is that?  

The remote machine you are logging into gets the id_dsa.pub and/or
id_rsa.pub public keys added to the .ssh/authorized_keys file

The local machine you are working on keeps the id_dsa and id_rsa private
keys.  The keys are generated on this local machine.

 
} The sshd_config file would be the one on the client(the machine I create
} the key pair with), correct? And is it the line "PermitEmptyPasswords"? It
} was set to no, I changed it and tried a "kill -HUP 312"(pid of sshd) and
} no difference.

No I would not enable the use of empty passwords.  Thats using empty
passwords with no key pairs.  It looks like empty passphrases in key
pairs are always ok, I don't see a sshd_config entry for it.

/etc/init.d/ssh restart  (debian) or
/etc/init.d/sshd restart (redhat) is easier than the kill stuff.

On the local  machine /etc/ssh/ssh_config is the relevant file.
On the remote machine /etc/ssh/sshd_config is the relevant file.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com