ssh not allowing..!!!

[Justin_132]

Hi Admins,

I got some users for whom i had generated dsa keys in their home directories. Im running SSH with protocol ver.2. Though I appended the authorised_keys of one user with other users key(dsa),still Im prompted for password. This is within a system and not between other systems. How can I login from one normal user to another without prompting password(of same group)..

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[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Justin,

The most common cause of this is permissions on the .ssh/ directory.

Attaching a word doc and linking a power point presentation that should help you debug the whole thing.

http://www.hpuxconsulting.com/5004.ppt
Download it, don't try and open it online with Firefox, something strange may happen.

SEP

[Justin_132]

Hi Steve,

Im able to do that between one server and the other and it works. But my requ. is to have between users of same group in the same server. Not with any other servers locally.
Just tell me, In this case why should I use dsa public key for authuntication, since im not going to connect any server outside.

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[Justin_132]

Hi Admins...

Any Hopes For This...!!!!!!!

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[Geoff Wild]

Yes, there is hope - you should be able to do this.

What version of ssh are you using?

Rgds...Geoff

[Jeff_Traigle]

You mentioned you created the authorized_keys. Assuming that's correct and all permissions were double checked as Steven mentioned... do you have PubkeyAuthentication set to yes in /opt/ssh/etc/sshd_config? If not, that would cause sshd to prompt for a password even with the authorized_keys set up properly.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Justin,

say you are user1 and want to login as user2 on the same server or another server, you need to put your keys (user1 keys) into the authorized_keys of the other user (user2).

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Justin_132]

Hi Admins,

I did : (User1 and User2 are in same group)

- Generated dsa keys for User1 and User2
from their own logins,

- Check the permissions for the auth.._key files for User1 and User2,

- Appended auth.._key files of both users with their resp. dsa.pub key,

As I said before, I got absolutely no probs between other systems. Im not able to do within the system.

Hereby attached my sshd_config file.

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[guna_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I can see from your sshd config file , the hostkey for DSA is hashed , you have to enable that one .

your are able to connect to other m/c because that your are acting as client , this config file will not be used .

sshd_config will be used by sshd daemon , which is listening for client requests.

You get more err info if you have started your server daemon is debugg mode by adding -ddd option while starting.


Regds,
Guna

[Justin_132]

Hi Guna,

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /opt/ssh/etc/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /opt/ssh/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /opt/ssh/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key

I have changed my settings...but stil no grace from GOD...!!

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