[X-Unix] SSH without requiring password between 2 machines

[Eugene]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:32:40AM -0400, Our Pal Al wrote:
: 
: I'm trying to enable SSH without requiring a password between my OSX 
: machine and another OSX Mac.
: 
: On my mac  I used ssh-keygen to make an rsa key.
: I copied the id_rsa.pub file from my ~/.ssh directory to the 
: authorized_keys file in the ~/.ssh directory of my target Mac
: On the target I edited /etc/sshd_config to uncomment  
: "PubkeyAuthentication yes" and "AuthorizedKeysFile      
: .ssh/authorized_keys", and then turned Remote Login of and on in the 
: Sharing preference.
: 
: And yet, whenever I try to ssh to my target, I can't at all. I get 
: "Connection closed by <remote ip#>"
: 
: What am I still doing wrong? For now I have to rename authorized keys 
: to get in.

Enable verbose mode.  What does "ssh -v" report?


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Eugene Lee
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