The idea isnt supposed to be 'password-less', ideally you would generate a key with its own passphrase anyway. The point in using ssh keys is increased security as not only to do you have to know the passphrase of the key, you also need to have the key in the first place. This pretty much makes the risk of brute-force password attacks zero.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Peter Apps <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@sheppey.free-online.co.uk">peter@sheppey.free-online.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just out of curiosity. What's the advantage of going 'password less'?<br>
<br>
I use ssh, sshfs and fish (in Konqueror). Once through the password,<br>
fish in particular gives pretty free access to the remote computer. I<br>
find a password a comforting security check so I've never considered<br>
bypassing it.<br>
<br>
Regards, Peter.<br>
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On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:54 +0100, Stephen Fraser wrote:<br>
> I dont mean to point out the obvious, however i assume you have<br>
> restarted sshd on the server after changing the config?<br>
><br>
> Ritchie Fraser wrote:<br>
> > Hi All,<br>
> ><br>
> > I am trying to get "password less" public key pair authentication to work<br>
> > between my laptop and my desktop and am not being very successful.<br>
> ><br>
> > ritchie@linux-9gkd:~/.ssh> ssh ritchie@hpdesk<br>
> > Password:<br>
> > Last login: Sat May 9 11:44:06 2009 from hpdesk<br>
> > Have a lot of fun...<br>
> > ritchie@hpdesk:~><br>
> ><br>
> > As you can see, ssh works and lets me in BUT it still asks me for my password.<br>
> > Grrrr.<br>
> ><br>
> > I feel I am missing something really stupid. All pointers welcome :-)<br>
> ><br>
> > Setup:<br>
> > Laptop: linux-9gkd Desktop: hpdesk<br>
> > OS: OpenSUSE 11.1 OpenSUSE 10.3<br>
> ><br>
> > I followed the instructions here...<br>
> > <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Public_Key_Authentication" target="_blank">http://en.opensuse.org/Public_Key_Authentication</a><br>
> ><br>
> > I created my rsa key pair on linux-9gkd and copied it (id_rsa.pub) into my<br>
> > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on hpdesk.<br>
> ><br>
> > I made the suggested changes to client (linux-9gkd) and server (hpdesk) config<br>
> > files.<br>
> ><br>
> > I can post config files if necessary.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
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