[TriLUG] Public Key Authentication with SSH

[Brian Blater (BBList)]

The machines I'm using are SUSE 10 and SLES9. These boxes are internal
test boxes on our local network. For now I'm trying to setup public key
authentication with a blank password (for scripting purposes). Here is
what I've done so far.

On the remote host I've modified sshd_config with the following
options:
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys

On the local host I've modified ssh_config with the following options:
HostKeyAlgorithms ssh-dss
PreferredAuthentications
hostbased,publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
PubkeyAuthentication yes

Restarted sshd on remote and local hosts.

On local host I ran ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 -f filename-dsa.
(when prompted for a passphrase I just hit enter)

I then copied the filename-dsa.pub key to the remote host and added it
to the user's .ssh/authorized_keys file using cat.

At this point I should be done. I then ssh to the remote host as the
user, but I'm still prompted for a password. Not sure where I went
wrong, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian