Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-27 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:23:00AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > > This is what I've done: > > > > I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh" > > On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase. > > I then cop

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:46:32PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote: > This works for interactive use. But it doesn't fit the needs of cron > jobs. OK, you *can* use ssh-agent withing cron jobs, but you give up > more security than you gain using such a hack. > > So if you need an ssh connection within a cr

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Ulf Rompe
Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Creating an SSH key with a blank passphrase is *absolutely* the > wrong way to go about this. Yes, it will work, but if anybody ever > manages to get their hands on the private key, they've got access to > your account on the remote machine. > > Passphr

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > This is what I've done: > > I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh" > On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase. > I then copied the identity.pub to the RedHat machine and renamed it to > ~/.ssh/au

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:03:17AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > The -v flag will give you some more verbose output (you can use that > flag up to three times to increase the verbosity further). Does that > help find the problem? Yes, thank you very much! debug1: Remote: Bad file modes for /opt/we

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:30:53AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Honestly SSH2's publickey or hostbased authentication might be an > easier choice... Would have upgraded in a blink of an eye ... but I'm not root on that machine :-) -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Umm... Unless you have some reason to be running that version of SSH instead of ssh2 or openssh (ssh) I wouldn't... I'm in the process of doing a post-mortem on a harddrive of a friend's computer in which we believe ssh 1.2.27 was the way they got in as it was one of the very few ports that

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > This is what I've done: > > I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh" > On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase. > I then copied the identity.pub to the RedHat machine and renamed it to > ~/.ssh/au

Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
I'm trying to do key authentication between the current unstable openssh and a remote box running RedHat and the following version of ssh-nonfree: SSH Version 1.2.27, protocol version 1.5 Regular logins work. I want to login without using a password. This is what I've done: I've enabled ssh1 su