help configuring ssh pub keys instead of passwords
Brent
mrb at bmyster.com
Sat Mar 5 10:32:24 PST 2005
On my freebsd 4.10 im trying to setup ssh2 to use dsa keys for authentication
instead of passwords ..
so far i have done
edit /etc/sshd_config
Port 22
Protocol 2
PermitRootLogin no
MaxStartups 5:50:10
X11Forwarding no
PrintLastLog yes
SyslogFacility auth
LogLevel VERBOSE
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
Banner /etc/issue
AllowGroups sshusers <-- this exsists
# create some group that you can put OpenSSH users into
Next, we'll open and edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config
[user at server /dir]#vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config
ForwardAgent no
ForwardX11 no
PasswordAuthentication no
CheckHostIP yes
Port 22
Protocol 2
then i su to unpriv user and ran ssh-keygen -d
then i did
cat id_dsa.pub > authorized_keys2
then copy the id_dsa.pub to a floppy so that i could transfer the dsa key to
the machine from which id be accessing the unix box.
i then tried to use the key from a winblows putty ssh client and i get the
folowing error when trying to login to the unix box
Unable to use key file "C:\id_dsa" (OpenSSH SSH2 private key)
Any help is very appreciated
Thank you Brent
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