On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:10PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords?
> One from the key and one from the login?
>
> Currently, I only need to enter the login password.
> that is why I do not understand what are these keys
> for?
If everything is working correctly, you should only be asked for your
passphrase (see 'man ssh-keygen').
However, from 'man ssh':
If other authentication methods fail, ssh prompts the user for a pass
word. The password is sent to the remote host for checking; however,
since all communications are encrypted, the password cannot be seen by
someone listening on the network.
Most of the systems on which I have set up a .ssh/authorized_keys file
require only the key. One requires the password instead, although the
key file is correct as far as I can tell.
Bob
>
> Nitebirdz wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:26:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> > > > hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm still confused about the keys file.
> > > >
> > > > I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase
> > > > and it created two files in
> > > > $HOME/.ssh/identify
> > > > $HOME/.ssh/identify.pub
> > > >
> > > > I copy the identify.pub to machine-2:$HOME/.ssh/m1.key
> > > > on machine-2, I ran the command on machine-2 to logon
> > > > machin-1:
> > > >
> > > > ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/m1.key machine-1
> > > >
> > >
> > > put the public key in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in order to allow
> > > logins using the associated private key.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, basically you need to rename that identity.pub file to
> > authorized_keys on their other end as far as I remember. By the way, I
> > don't really know what you're trying to do but if you did enter a
> > passphrase you will not then be able to ssh or scp to that host without
> > entering a password. I was just thinking that perhaps you're trying to
> > set up the whole thing so that you are not prompted for a password at all,
> > so you can run scripts remotely. So, if that is the case keep in mind
> > that you do NOT need a passphrase.
> >
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