help configuring ssh pub keys instead of passwords

Steven Howe showe at metrocastcablevision.com
Sat Mar 5 11:31:55 PST 2005


this just in.....


On
the Windows box, you need to run puttygen.exe
append the pub key to

~/.ssh/authorized_keys (on the server)

and then load the private key (*.ppk file you generated) into putty and 
slide into home plate


the key here (no pun intended) is to generate the pair oin the client, 
and upload the .pub onto the server,


-pieces
-steven






Brent wrote:

>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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-- 
Steven Howe
Network Operations
MetroCast Cablevision



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