[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herbert Ho) wrote: >looking in the man page for ssh-add it states that if the identity >file doesn't exist, then it would create it. but it doesn't. it keeps >spitting me a "bad key file" error. > >so again, i rashly nuke my .ssh, saving my config this time. =) > >and still ssh-add doesn't work. so i try logging out and logging back >in hoping that it was ssh-agent that was at fault. no luck. > >does anyone have any clue what i can do?
How about ssh-keygen? >also, am i suppose to run ssh-add on the remote server or on my local >machine? I run it on the local machine, then ssh seems to be happy. For reference, the way I normally tell a new account (say [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that I should be able to log in from my primary box ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without a password goes something like this: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh-add (if necessary) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this gets riva's host key into remote's .ssh/known_hosts file) * log back out of both ssh sessions * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat .ssh/identity.pub | \ > ssh remote cat \>\> .ssh/authorized_keys Once I've done that, everything works smoothly. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
