Problem with ssh
doug
doug at fledge.watson.org
Tue Mar 18 11:51:19 PDT 2008
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, White Hat wrote:
> I have tried using the following command with negative results.
>
> ssh -L 5902:localhost:5901 scorpio
>
> That produces this error message:
>
> Permission denied (publickey).
>
> I found a reference to this command at:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/sshvnc.html
>
> I cannot figure out how to correct whatever the problem is. I am attempting to
> connect to a FreeBSD-6.3 machine running 'TightVNC' from a WinXP machine. The
> connection works fine using a regular connection; however, I would prefer to
> use 'ssh' and limit the port to localhost for security.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> White Hat
> pigskin_referee at yahoo.com
Can you use putty or the like and ssh into scorpio without a prompt? If not then
you just need to key up ssh to allow login via ssh-add.
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