ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

[Kevin Oberman]

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> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:29 -0700
> From: Gavin Spomer <spomerg at cwu.EDU>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> I hope this isn't an invalid topic for this list. I'm on so many lists
> and I hate to join another one just to get help on one
> thing. Apologies if it's not.
> 
> I am able to use ssh-keygen to generate keys so that I can ssh from my
> Mac to any of my SuSE systems or ssh from my Mac to any of my FreeBSD
> systems, without having to enter my password. When I try the same
> thing from a SuSE system to a FreeBSD system, (I.E. I run "ssh-keygen
> -t rsa" on the SuSE system, then copy the id_rsa.pub to my
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the FreeBSD system) I get the following
> message when ssh-ing to the FreeBSD system:
> 
>    Enter passphrase for key '/home/myusername/.ssh/id_rsa':
> 
> ... and I have to enter my password. I've Googled, but can't seem to
> find the answer to my dilemma. Is it generally kind of a pain to do
> this between platforms? I'm finally very comfortable on FreeBSD and am
> starting to really get annoyed with SuSE. :(

It's not asking for your password. It's asking for your passphrase to
decrypt your private key. Are you running an ssh-agent on the Suse
system? 

If this does not point you in the right direction, try running ssh
-v. This MAY give us an idea of the problem, though the debug data from
the server would be better.

MacOS X uses the FreeBSD user environment, so it should work the same
under FreeBSD as it does on the Mac.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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