At 08:23 PM 3/4/2003 -0600, Joshua S. Abbott wrote: >hello i have cygwin and need to create and install ssh keys....I am in >/home/AndrewWallace and .ssh is under that I use: ssh-keygen -t rsa -f >mysshkey then ssh-keygen -t rsa -f .ssh/id_rsa/ -N "" .... the I try to >connect to the server and it give "Permission Denied (Public Key)" :'(
Since I have seen this type of question more than a few times, here's my crib sheet. Feel free to modify. Regards, - Robert ----- (c) 2003 - Robert Citek For OpenSSH 2.5.2 or greater under Cygwin: access without using a password or with single-login. Assuming you want to connect from machine A to machine B using ssh. == blank passphrase 1) generate private/public keys on A $ ssh-keygen -t dsa press enter when it asks for the filename press enter when it asks for the passphrase (yes, a blank passphrase) this will generate two files: ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub 2) put ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from A into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on B $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh B 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2' 3) make sure all files are not writable or readable except by owner do this on A and B $ chmod a-x,go-w,o-r ~/.ssh/* 4) verify it works $ ssh B ls -la == single-logon 1) generate private/public keys on A $ ssh-keygen -t dsa press enter when it asks for the filename enter a passphrase this will generate two files: ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub 2) put ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from A in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on B $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh B 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2' 3) make sure all files are not writable or readable except by owner do this on A and B $ chmod a-x,go-w,o-r ~/.ssh/* 4) use ssh-agent to manage passphrases $ eval $(ssh-agent) 5) make agent aware of passphrases $ ssh-add # enter the appropriate passphrase for each remote host 6) verify everything works $ ssh B ls -la -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
