[olug] basic SSH help

Quinn Coldiron qcoldir at nmhs.org
Wed Mar 19 16:04:57 UTC 2003


On both boxes I did a ssh-keygen -b2048 -t rsa.  I can't even ssh back
to myself (aix account to aix account) without the prompt.


On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:57, thehaas at binary.net wrote:
> > Hmm...  Even with ssh-agent running I'm prompted for a passphrase.  I
> > can be on the laptop, and ssh to myself on the laptop and that even
> > prompts for the passphrase.
> >
> 
> Okay, I've ran into this before . . . .
> 
> The AIX machine is probably looking for a key created via DSA and you
> created a key on the linux side via rsa1 (which I think it the default).
> 
> Make a new key with "ssh-keygen -t dsa" and see if that works.
> 
> -- mikeh
> 
> 
> 
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