Windows batch file to run a HP-UX script on a remote machine

[Taurian]

Hello All,

Can anyone please tell me how to configure the "OpenSSH" software so that it does not prompt for a password?

The scenario is that I want to shutdown HP-UX machines from a Windows machine. I want to create a batch file in windows that will run shutdown scripts in all the servers one by one. This I want to do without any human intervention.

I have installed "OpenSSH" on my windows machine and executed 'ssh root@'. Initially it showed an RSA key. I made a text file in windows and put the key in it and then copied it to the '/home/root/.ssh' directory on my server that is running HP-UX. It does not show the key when I run 'ssh root@' on windows, but it prompts for a password, for which human intervention is required.

Please let me know what step I am missing.

Same problem with using rexec command.

[IT_2007]

copy public key to authorized_keys file on remote machine under home-directory/.ssh then it won't ask for password.

[Taurian]

Srini_2007:
This is still not working. I generated a file through ssh-keygen and renamed it to 'authorized_keys' and copied it to remote machine in the directory '/home/.ssh/'. This didn't work. I also created this file on remote machine and pasted only the rsa key into it. This didn't work either. It is still asking for the password.

[Patrice Le Guyader]

Hi,

Take a look at this doc (from Senthil Prabu.S). It's between two solaris boxes but it's the same principle.

hope this helps
Kenavo
Pat

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Besides my religous objection to Windows boxes being permitted to run batch on HP-UX(joke), this is still a basic ssh issue.

Their needs to be the same user on both systems. ie, if you want root to run the job on HP-UX it needs to come from a windows user named root.

The ownership of the folder and permissions must be very precise or ssh will keep prompting for a password.

Try to set this up between to HP-UX boxes so that you know the Unix permissions. Then use the Windows GUI to match this as closely as possible.

Also see this document
http://www.hpuxconsulting.com/5004.ppt

You may need a different windows ssh client to make this work properly.

SEP

[Marvin Strong]

it has to be /home/{username}/.ssh/authorized_keys

where username is the name of the user whom your are connecting as.

thus ssh -l mstrong server1 scriptname

/home/mstrong/.ssh/authorized_keys needs the key. Also the permissions on that file and directory need to be 600.

[Taurian]

My $HOME variable on server is "/". Therefore, I am creating the directory "/.ssh/".

I have done everything that you guys have mentioned. But the password prompt is still there.

This is what I have done:

Windows> ssh-keygen -t rsa
Windows> copied id_rsa.pub to HP-UX server

HP-UX> touch /.ssh/authorized_keys
HP-UX> cat id_rsa.pub >> /.ssh/authorized_keys
HP-UX> chmod 600 /.ssh/authorized_keys

Windows> ssh root@ap1

Here it asks for a password. The above mentioned steps are all I have performed. What is it that I am missing??