This is my problem.

I'm making a menu for our system operators to stop/start some java applications. The problem is the java applications can only be stopped/start using the root account. So I tried to use ssh -l root <server> <command> on the script that the menu calls, but the system asks for the root password. I already created the authorized_keys for root account and placed it on the home directory of root on the server; in this case /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. But I just can't ssh as root to the server. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.

To be clear on this,

I am sysops account logged in to server x and I am going to ssh -l root server x <command>

Thanks in advance.

I tried this problem using another approach.

- I logged in using the sysops account.
- ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/sysops/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/sysops/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/sysops/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
############################################## sysops@campsmart03
- cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys (~sysops/.ssh)
- chmod 600 id_rsa.pub
- ssh campsmart03 hostname
campsmart03
- cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (~/.ssh)
- su sysops
- ssh -l root campsmart03 hostname
campsmart03

Success!!!