Comments on: Comprehensive Guide for SSH2 Key based authentication setup

By: Mst

Mst — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:46:53 +0000

I am executing ssh-keygen2 on Local, which is running Solaris 7 . The command never “exits”

[/home/xxx]: ssh-keygen -b 2048
Generating 2048-bit dsa key pair
3 o.oOo.oOo.o

The number on the last lines keeps moving from 1 to 2 to 3 …. but the key is never generated. Any ideas?

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Using OpenSSH public keys with OpenVMS (and SSH2) « UNIX Administratosphere — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:40:02 +0000

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By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:01:41 +0000

@Anonymous, Thanks for your feedback. I also wrote another article where it talks about how to use ssh-copy-id to perform the passwordless login. @Frank Thanks a lot for pointing it out. it was a typo. But, even with that typo that scenario would've worked, as you can name the public-key file anything you want, as long as the name is same on step#5 and step#6. I've updated the document accordingly to reflect the proper file name in step#5 and step#6.

By: Frank Foehrenbach

Frank Foehrenbach — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:58:51 +0000

In step 5, you change the name of the file when you copy it. Is there a reason for this or was this just a typo? Thanks for this info. It was helpful. I will be subscribing to your website.

5. Copy the public key to remote-host.

Copy the /home/jsmith/.ssh2/id_dsa_2048_b.pub file from the local-host to the remote-host /home/jsmith/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_b.pub. You can perform a vi /home/jsmith/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_b.pub on the remote-host and copy the content of the public key from the local-host.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:16:06 +0000

the permissions should be 700 instead of 744 and 600 instead of 644
easier to send the public key with ssh-copy-id
example: ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_dsa.pub user@host
then try it:
ssh user@host

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:44:36 +0000

@Siddharth,

Thanks for the nice compliment. Linux is one of my passion and I’ve done intensive work on it.

@Ajay,

I’ll get in touch with you to figure out the details of how you can write articles about microsoft technologies at the geek stuff.

@Narendra,

I’m glad this guide was helpful for you.

By: narendra.s.v

narendra.s.v — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:31:32 +0000

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By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:24:17 +0000

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can pariticipate with you in this blog to share my Microsoft technologies exp.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:30:14 +0000

Looks like you are a great coder