SSH Without a Password

por | 9 febrero, 2008
0 comentarios

The following steps can be used to ssh from one system to another without specifying a password.

Notes:

  • The system from which the ssh session is started via the ssh command is the client.
  • The system that the ssh session connects to is the server.
  • These steps seem to work on systems running OpenSSH.
  • The steps assume that a DSA key is being used. To use a RSA key substitute ‘rsa’ for ‘dsa’.
  • The steps assume that you are using a Bourne-like shell (sh, ksh or bash)
  • Some of this information came from:
    http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/Secure_Shell/2002-12/0083.html

Steps:

  1. On the client run the following commands: 
    $ mkdir -p $HOME/.ssh
$ chmod 0700 $HOME/.ssh
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -P ''

    This should result in two files, $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa (private key) and $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (public key).

  2. Copy $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to the server.
  3. On the server run the following commands: 
    $ cat id_dsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2
$ chmod 0600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2

    Depending on the version of OpenSSH the following commands may also be required:

    $ cat id_dsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
$ chmod 0600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys

    An alternative is to create a link from authorized_keys2 to authorized_keys:

    $ cd $HOME/.ssh && ln -s authorized_keys2 authorized_keys
  4. On the client test the results by ssh’ing to the server: 
    $ ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa server
  5. (Optional) Add the following $HOME/.ssh/config on the client: 
    Host server
         IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

    This allows ssh access to the server without having to specify the path to the id_dsa file as an argument to ssh each time.

Helpful manpages:

Valid XHTML and CSS // Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

$Id: ssh_nopass.html 748 2006-08-06 05:21:59Z ranga $