HP SIM and SSH

[vmarceloe]

I've been trying to identify systems with SSH without having to deal with passwords at all but it keeps trying to authenticate using passwords.

Upon building a server I add the ssh keys to both /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 but SIM always tries to discover a system using passwords.

==> /var/log/secure <==
Sep 27 11:03:07 sandbox16 sshd[10278]: Did not receive identification string from x.x.x.x
Sep 27 11:03:07 sandbox16 sshd[10280]: Received disconnect from x.x.x.x: 11: The user disconnected the application
Sep 27 11:03:07 sandbox16 sshd[10281]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=cto-sim.dev.domain.com user=root
Sep 27 11:03:09 sandbox16 sshd[10281]: Failed password for root from x.x.x.x port 57138 ssh2
Sep 27 11:03:09 sandbox16 sshd[10282]: Received disconnect from x.x.x.x: 11: The user disconnected the application
Sep 27 11:03:18 sandbox16 sshd[11507]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=cto-sim.dev.domain.com user=root
Sep 27 11:03:20 sandbox16 sshd[11507]: Failed password for root from x.x.x.x port 57254 ssh2
Sep 27 11:03:20 sandbox16 sshd[11508]: Received disconnect from x.x.x.x: 11: The user disconnected the application

I'm sure I'm missing something here and I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction.