On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 07:25:23PM -0800, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > I didn't know about the shell account. I was trying to connect to > cvs.sourceforge.net. I've created my RSA keys and copied the public key to > nebuladevice.sourceforge.net, but I'm still prompted for a password. I also > tried putting my private key in id_rsa, but to no avail. > > ~/.ssh: ssh -v gudujarlson at nebuladevice.sourceforge.net SourceForge is likely using ssh protocol 2, not one. You can use your protocol 1 key by specifying '-1' as an option to ssh. Otherwise, and highly recommended, you need to create an RSA or DSA key w/ bash$ ssh-keygen -t rsa #... Make sure you enter a password for all of your identities. It wouldn't be very good if someone hacked into your box and used your ssh identities to hack into other machines w/o having to crack your identity password. If you want to get prompted for your RSA password only once, use ssh-add(8). bash$ ssh-add .ssh/id_rsa #... -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-devel/attachments/20011220/e9d9a8d0/attachment.pgp