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

[Chris Weiss]

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.
>
> - opa
>
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Does the account you're logging in to on the other Mac exist and does it 
have a shell set? I ran into this the other day when I'd forgotten to 
fully set up the user on the other machine. Also, I dont know about 
Darwin in particular, but some default *nix installs dont allow the 
admin/root account to log in remotely, you have to log in as an 
underpriveledged user and then SU to an admin account to do any fiddling.


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