SSH question

[Mike Bird]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 02:16, David Mummery wrote:
> I'm trying to setup password-less SSH login using public/private keypair but am failing. All the documentation tells me to do the same thing but it does not work:
> 
> On my remote machine, as root, I run:
> 
> ssh-keygen -t rsa
> 
> - Enter and confirm passphrase
> 
> cp /root/.ssh/i_rsa.pub /root/.ssh/authorised_keys
> 
> chmod 644 /root/.ssh/authorised_keys
> 
> I then copy authorised_keys to the machine I want to connect from, as root, and put it into /root/.ssh/authorised_keys
> 
> I then chmod 644 this file.
> 
> Despite this, when I run 'ssh root at remote_host', as root, I am still asked for remote host's root password. I cannot see what I am doing wrong(!)

You might want to try authorized_keys instead.   :-)

--Mike Bird