[NCLUG] ssh2 - hostbased authentications

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:56:01AM +0000, dobbster wrote:
>I haven't worked on this for a bit, but now I have done as you
>suggested, using a null passphrase.  I never managed to get the
>"hostbased" authentication to function properly for root; I suspect it's
>maybe because the IP address of the "local" machine doesn't resolve in
>DNS.

One thing to remember is that authorized_keys works with SSH version 1
protocol.  The newer OpenSSHs ship with the config file defaulting to
using version 2 protocol.  Check /etc/ssh/ssh_config and change the
"Version 2,1" to "Version 1,2" if it's there.

That torqued me off for a while...  Wait, maybe that just influences
the SSH agent.  May be worth trying, anyway.

Sean
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