[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access (getting long)

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:17:48PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:46:08PM +0000, John Tobin wrote:
> > Take a look in the sshd_config file on both machines for a line
> > reading "Protocol 2,1" or similar specifying which protocol to try
> > first.  That might be the difference.

ugh, bad solution.

> That was the issue - different protocol specification on both boxes. Odd,
> because they should both have been as installed. As Kevin pointed out, the
> dsa and rsa keys would have helped too. Pro tem, being under pressure to
> make this work, I've gone with protocol ver. 1 as my answer. I'll have to
> have a read and see why I need to use ver. 2. For those in a similar
> position, sshd -d is quite useful but when you use it with ssh -v it gets
> even better :-) In fact if I'd used ssh -v first I probably wouldn't have
> needed sshd -d :-(

protocol 1 is less secure.  i think there's a theoretical attack
against it.  version 2 is better.  just put you id_dsa.pub key into
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2.  it's simple.

kevin

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