I have created an rsa key on my workstations which I use to ssh to 25+ servers I have a small script that allows me to 'ssh ${host}' easily.
but when I am logged into $host1 and attempt to ssh to $host2 I'm prompted for a password. So, I decided to copy my id_rsa into the ${host}~./ssh directories on the 25 servers. I already have an authorized_keys file being that I ssh to them all day from my workstation. I set permissions to 0600 on each id_rsa. When I attempt to login here is what I get using ssh -v host -- debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/tulku/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 435 lastkey 0x906a918 hint 0 debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed debug1: read PEM private key done: type <unknown> Enter passphrase for key '/home/tulku/.ssh/id_rsa': I don't have a passphrase setup, when I created the key I hit <return> Is this due to bad perms, or did I miss something in the documentation? thanks, -mike