public key authentication

[Janina Sajka]

You specified an older type key. Rerun as:

ssh-keygen -t dsa

and just accept the defaults. Do not put in a password--unless you don't mind typing it every time you connect.

Do this for every user you may be. In other words, I do it as janina and as root.

Now, leave the original files in .ssh. Take each .pub file and cat it with >> to authorized_keys. This will give you one file that you can copy to every machine you need to connect to as whatever user you are. The first time you'll be prompted whether you want to continue. If you say yes, an entry is made in .ssh/known_hosts, and you'll never be prompted again.

Igor Gueths writes:
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> Hi all. I'm attempting to set up public key authentcation, however I think I am missing something. I generated the keypair by running ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t dsa. I then wrote the resulting 
> identity.pub file to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, which is where I am storing the file so no other users can play with it. I then restarted sshd, and tried connecting to localhost under my user 
> account to see if it would properly authenticate. I got as far as the prompt for the passphrase of the private key. Once I entered that, I got a "permission denied message." I did make sure I 
> was entering the correct passphrase. Should I perhaps regenerate the keys, or am I forgetting something? Thanks!
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175