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Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

garrido — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:24 -0000

Thanks Parag, very helpful for any troubleshooting that might come up int he future...

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

adaptives — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:07:22 -0000

Thanks, your post helped me implement passwordless authentication. I would like to add one thing which I have not seen in a lot of places:

It has been documented that the .ssh directory in the user's home directory on the server must have a permission of 700.

However, I realized that not only the .ssh directory, but also the user's home directory cannot give write access to 'group', and 'everyone'. The user's home directory on the server must have permission set to either 700 or 744 (704, 740, etc).

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

licitatii — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:57:26 -0000

"testsubjectalpha" is right abut it.

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

testsubjectalpha — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:27:35 -0000

Hi!
Thanks for this very detailed post!

Just wanted to add one more thing: for these steps to work, the SSH server must support passwordless logins also!

To enable this (and if you're doing this on your own machine/s), edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config as root. In it, uncomment the lines that say "PubkeyAuthentication yes". Also, puttygen.exe by default generates SSH2-RSA keys, so also uncomment the "RSAAuthentication yes" line

Thanks again!

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

thinkweird — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:10:02 -0000

Nice! Just what I need!

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

garrido — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:47:29 -0000

Thanks Hugo, glad to help!

Re: Howto: Passwordless SSH authentication with Putty

Hugo Rodrigues — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:06:16 -0000

great post!