[TriLUG] Im stumped by SSH

Scott Morris scmorris at ifndef.com
Mon Jan 13 13:11:52 EST 2003


were you using ssh-agent before?


Scott Morris		scmorris at ifndef.com
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Ryan Leathers wrote:

> Last Friday my SSH stopped working correctly.
> I have some scripts that move files, etc., to a Redhat 7.3 server from a
> Redhat 8.0 workstation.
>
> Automated scripts stopped working and I noticed that when I try to SSH
> into the 7.3 server I am now prompted for a password.
> I suspect that once I resolve this my scripts will continue to work as
> expected.
>
> I didn't notice any changes to any of the usual suspect files, so I
> decided to rebuild my SSH from scratch for this account.
> I restarted ssh on both systems.  I ran ssh-keygen on the workstation
> and copied the identity.pub up to the server where I cat'ed it to the
> authorized_keys file.
> At this point I expected to be able to ssh in without having to type a
> password... but it still prompts me for one.
>
> Any ideas what else could be going on ?
>
> Ryan
>




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