log in to the HPUX box as applmgr and run ssh-keygen as follows ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" the quotes are important as this gives you a null passphrase
It will generate "id_rsa" and "id_rsa.pub" files in $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/
copy $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/ authorized_keys2
move $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/id_rsa to the W2K box
as c:\Documents and Settings\colibri\.ssh\applmgr_id_rsa
on the W2K Box
set the permissions on the applmgr_id_rsa file to u=rw, g=none,o=none by chmod 0600 .ssh/applmgr_id_rsa
ssh -i applmgr_id_rsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I recall, the first time it prompts you for a password and generates the known hosts file.
Thereafter it should be passwordless.
The id_rsa file does not have to be named applmgr_id_rsa,
I only did that for clarity, just make sure the filename matches the filename given by the -i option to ssh
It's been a while since I've done this, but this is correct to the best of my memory.
Chris Shehan wrote:
Good Afternoon,
Thanks for your response. I have tried to work through both you answer and the solution you provided in the web link. So far I am still unable to get the passwordless connection to work.
Here is my setup: Windows 2000 server. Windows user name is colibri. I have generated the RSA keys which were created in the c:\Documents and Settings\colibri\.ssh directory (id_rsa & id_rsa.pub).
The user that I wish to connect to on the HP UX server is applmgr. So I take the id_rsa.pub file and copy it to the HPUX server. It was placed in the /u02/app/applmgr/.ssh directly and named authorized_keys.
Supposedly once this is done I should be able to connect to the HPUX server from the Windows server as applmgr via ssh or sftp (example : sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) without being asked for a password... correct? I am still prompted for a password.
Or is this process assuming that I have identical users on both servers with identical passwords? I am sure this is a very simple setup and that I am missing something simple.
Please help me clarify the situation and/or point out my problem.
Thanks again for you help, Chris Shehan
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