[NCLUG] ssh2 - hostbased authentications

Quent quent at pobox.com
Mon Dec 11 13:48:35 MST 2000


Still seems to work. "ssh-add -l" gives different types of output
depending on the version.

	Quent

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:27:56PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 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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