David, Check the following page: <a href="http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/ssh_nopass.html">http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/ssh_nopass.html</a> This should solve your problem. Pascal <div>On 10/14/05, David <<a href="mailto:david@kenpro.com.au">david@kenpro.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm trying to use dsa key pairs so that I can ssh in a cron script without passwords. I've generated the key pair, then copied the public key to the server. Client is Hoary, and server is Debian Sarge. When I ssh, I get asked for a password. Is there some step I'm missing? Is there something in the sshd_config or ssh_config that needs fixing? Another point: since sudo is not an option in this case, does that mean I have to activate root? While I'm asking.. can anyone tell me if there is any advantage of either RSA or DSA? Below is what I actually did. thanks... David. david@foo:~/.ssh $ ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/david/.ssh/id_dsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /home/david/.ssh/id_dsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/david/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: david@foo:~/.ssh $ ls authorized_keys authorized_keys2 id_dsa id_dsa.pub known_hosts david@foo:~/.ssh $ scp id_dsa.pub david@testbar:/home/david/.ssh/authorized_keys Password: id_dsa.pub 100% 600 0.6KB/s 00:00 david@foo:~/.ssh $ ssh david@fast Password: DARN! Why does it ask for a password! -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>