topic Re: SSH public key authentication in Operating System - HP-UX

SSH public key authentication

R.SRIDHAR — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:35:57 GMT

while configuring the ssh public key authentication. I am not able to understand the step given in http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-7493/ch04s03.html step no 4 i tryed to run this command but giving error message help me

Re: SSH public key authentication

Jeeshan — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:48:38 GMT

Hi Sridhar

What kind of error messages you have found?

Re: SSH public key authentication

Jeeshan — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:51:58 GMT

Hi again

You need to run this command in ssh server.

Re: SSH public key authentication

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:59:22 GMT

hi,

Copy the public key in the client system to the home directory of the server using the following command:

# cat $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub â ssh remoteuser@remotehost
â cat - >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keysâ

First of all, you run this command on the server where you have created the public key using the "ssh-keygen -t [rsaâ dsa]" command.

what the "cat" command does, it appends the public key in the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys of the "remotehost" for user "remoteuser".

What error are you getting?

revert!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: SSH public key authentication

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:02:08 GMT

hi again,

to further troubleshoot this, run the following commands to verify that you are able to connect to the remote host:

ping remotehost
ssh remoteuser@remotehost

if these commands work, then you will be able to successfully complete this step(4).

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: SSH public key authentication

R.SRIDHAR — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:15:22 GMT

when i trying to run the step4 command it is giving sh hostname not found..

Re: SSH public key authentication

Jeeshan — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:34:29 GMT

Tell me what is the output of this command in ssh server.

#cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh @ 'cat - >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Don't forget to assign points!!!!;-)

Re: SSH public key authentication

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:44:07 GMT

>when i trying to run the step4 command it is giving sh hostname not found..

what does the following command return to you?

ping hostname

if the hostname is not found in the DNS or /etc/hosts, you will have to include it there.

e.g. (extract from /etc/hosts)
192.168.111.23 hostname

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: SSH public key authentication

Steven Schweda — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:26 GMT

> when i trying to run the step4 command it
> is giving sh hostname not found..

What is the exact command which you run, and
what, exactly, is the error message?

This new copy+paste stuff can be very useful
in cases like this.