Setting up SSH keys for password less connections for sftp

[Ken Dibble]

log in to the HPUX box as applmgr and run ssh-keygen
as follows
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ""
the quotes are important as this gives you a null passphrase

It will generate "id_rsa" and "id_rsa.pub" files in $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/

copy $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/ authorized_keys2

move $HOME/applmgr/.ssh/id_rsa to the W2K box

as
c:\Documents and Settings\colibri\.ssh\applmgr_id_rsa

on the W2K Box

set the permissions on the applmgr_id_rsa file to u=rw, g=none,o=none
by
chmod 0600 .ssh/applmgr_id_rsa

ssh -i applmgr_id_rsa applmgr@HPUXboxhostname

If I recall,  the first time it prompts you for a password and generates 
the known hosts file.

Thereafter it should be passwordless.

The id_rsa file does not have to be named applmgr_id_rsa,
I only did that for clarity, just make sure the filename matches the 
filename given by the -i option to ssh

It's been a while since I've done this, but this is correct to the best 
of my memory.


Chris Shehan wrote:

>Good Afternoon,
>
>Thanks for your response. I have tried to work through both you answer and
>the solution you provided in the web link. So far I am still unable to get
>the passwordless connection to work.
>
>Here is my setup:
>Windows 2000 server. Windows user name is colibri. I have generated the RSA
>keys which were created in the c:\Documents and Settings\colibri\.ssh
>directory (id_rsa & id_rsa.pub).
>
>The user that I wish to connect to on the HP UX server is applmgr. So I take
>the id_rsa.pub file and copy it to the HPUX server. It was placed in the
>/u02/app/applmgr/.ssh directly and named authorized_keys.
>
>Supposedly once this is done I should be able to connect to the HPUX server
>from the Windows server as applmgr via ssh or sftp (example : sftp
>applmgr@finprod1 ) without being asked for a password... correct? I am still
>prompted for a password.
>
>Or is this process assuming that I have identical users on both servers with
>identical passwords?
>I am sure this is a very simple setup and that I am missing something
>simple.
>
>Please help me clarify the situation and/or point out my problem.
>
>Thanks again for you help,
>Chris Shehan
>
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