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ssh use public-key authentication

I use public-key authentication with secureCRT to login linux server and turn off password authentication at these server: 1.Create the keypair(openssh key format) with SecureCRT. 2.Cat the public ...
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sshd ignores authorized_keys and keeps trying authorized_keys2

I just uploaded my public key to a server, ensured permissions are right, and when i try to log it simply refuses it. after enabling loglevel DEBUG in sshd_config i get: Nov 22 06:53:36 host-1 ...
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New server won't accept SSH public key

I have a private network that had 3 servers before. Now that I added a fourth, I tried to set up public key authentication from the main entry point to this new server. However, the usual procedure ...
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How to make ssh connection between servers using public-key authentication

I am setting up a continuos integration(CI) server and a test web server. I would like that CI server would access web server with public key authentication. In the web server I have created an user ...
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Webmin + SSH Public Key

Is it possible to upload a UNIX user's public key to Webmin? I would think this would be on this screen, but I'm not finding it....
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CentOS Create User With No Password, Only Public Key Auth

How can I create a user on CentOS 5.6, which cannot login with a password. I.E. they can only login and SSH using public key authentication. useradd myuser -d /their-home-dir Will that do it, ...
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Get name of public key used to connect

I created a shell script that asks the connected user a question and after that it give him the prompt. The shell posts the question to a database for logging. The problem is that our developers are ...
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Is it possible to get OpenSSH to log the public key that was used in authentication?

I have a production system where several different people are allowed to log in to a single account - the account is for the application and not for the person as we don't have personal accounts on ...
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ssh with key login failed from Mac OSX to CentOS 5 remote server

I'm trying to setup passwordless login for from my mac to my remote server running CentOS with public key authentication for "user1". I used $ ssh-keygen -t rsa to setup a public key on my mac and ...
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Disable the public key check for rpm installation

I want to make a DVD with some useful packages (for example php-common). The only problem is that if I try to install on a computer that's not connected to internet, I can't validate the public key. ...
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openssh: public key failure for one user only

Client: opensuse 10.3, openssh 4.6 host: opensuse 11.3, openssh 5.4 I have a user that has ssh publickey setup to a host, to enable running some scripts through cron. We migrated the host to a new ...
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How to export my SSH's public key?

I need to set up ssh sessions between two servers and do not want to make the script fill in username and password everytime. However I cannot seem to find out where the SSH server is using its ...
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ssh key requires passphrase after viewing it

I'm running a tinycore machine that I store my code on before pushing it to github. This is also the only machine that has port 22 forwarded at home so I have to do the push from this machine due to ...
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ssh still accepts password authentication despite being configured for public-key only authentication (which works!)

I have configured an Ubuntu 10.04LTS desktop install to only allow public key authentication. RESULT: public key authentication works perfectly! QUESTION: The problem is that despite being ...
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ssh without password does not work for some users

I have a new RHEL4 Linux box that I am using to copy data to old Solaris 2.6 and RHEL3 Linux boxes with scp. I have found that with the same setup, it works for some users but not for others. For ...
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Speed up public key authentication (linux)?

We are using a Mercurial implementation and sending data to a repository server via public key authentication which takes the latest revision and pushes it to our web servers via hooks also using ...
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How to find out which key was used for public key authentication?

Several developers using a shared account on a test server, using public key authentication. Is there any way to find out which key was used for authentication (e.g. the keys comment)?