[Klug-general] Problem getting ssh to use PublicKeyAuthentication :-(

[Stephen Fraser]

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.

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Peter Apps <
peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity. What's the advantage of going 'password less'?
>
> I use ssh, sshfs and fish (in Konqueror). Once through the password,
> fish in particular gives pretty free access to the remote computer. I
> find a password a comforting security check so I've never considered
> bypassing it.
>
> Regards, Peter.
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:54 +0100, Stephen Fraser wrote:
> > I dont mean to point out the obvious, however i assume you have
> > restarted sshd on the server after changing the config?
> >
> > Ritchie Fraser wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am trying to get "password less" public key pair authentication to
> work
> > > between my laptop and my desktop and am not being very successful.
> > >
> > >     ritchie at linux-9gkd:~/.ssh> ssh ritchie at hpdesk
> > >     Password:
> > >     Last login: Sat May  9 11:44:06 2009 from hpdesk
> > >     Have a lot of fun...
> > >     ritchie at hpdesk:~>
> > >
> > > As you can see, ssh works and lets me in BUT it still asks me for my
> password.
> > > Grrrr.
> > >
> > > I feel I am missing something really stupid. All pointers welcome :-)
> > >
> > > Setup:
> > > Laptop: linux-9gkd
>  Desktop: hpdesk
> > > OS: OpenSUSE 11.1
> OpenSUSE 10.3
> > >
> > > I followed the instructions here...
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/Public_Key_Authentication
> > >
> > > I created my rsa key pair on linux-9gkd and copied it (id_rsa.pub) into
> my
> > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on hpdesk.
> > >
> > > I made the suggested changes to client (linux-9gkd) and server (hpdesk)
> config
> > > files.
> > >
> > > I can post config files if necessary.
> > >
> >
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