generating and using ssh keys with rsync

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

On 19.08.2008 11:59, Tamara Temple wrote:
> I don't have a program called "ssh-copy-id" on my system....
>
> I scp'd the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file from the local machine to the remote 
> machine, appended it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine, and 
> it's still asking for a password whenever i ssh to the remote machine.

My guess would be that you stumble over:
StrictModes

man sshd_config

The reason behind StrictModes is that if ANY part of the path up to 
authorized_keys is world writable it is "Card blanche" for ANYBODY to 
put ANYTHING into that file.




Bis denn

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