Hi,

I have a doubt in SSH passwordless authentication. I did the following in test and test1 servers.

bakthava@test:~> ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/cantin/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/cantin/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/cantin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
f6:61:a8:27:35:cf:4c:6d:13:22:70:cf:4c:c8:a0:23 bakthava@test

I have given the passphrase as "testkey", then the private key was saved as .ssh/id_rsa and the public key was saved in .ssh/id_rsa.pub,

I have copied the contents of the id_rsa.pub to test1 server under /home/bakthava/.ssh/authorized_keys.

When I ssh from test to test1 it is asking for the passphrase, is the way it works or anything i did wrong. I dont want to give the passphrase when am login from test to test1.

Any help?

if you don't want to ask for pass-phrase then don't give any phrase key while generating the ssh key. Try re-creating the key with out giving pass-phrase key. Then copy the generated key to the required system.


Thanks & Regards

try this. Surely u will succeeded.
http://servertechz.com/linux/ssh-log...rd-simple-way/

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Hey thanks a lot it works fine

I would advice not to use passphraseless ssh-keys. You can use a local ssh-agent + agent forwarding and you have to enter the passphrase only one time. Another option is to use hostbased authentication, where you also don't need any passphrase at all (even no ssh-keys for each user).