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passwordless ssh not working

richard headrick
richard headrick Member Posts: 1 Green Ribbon
in Solaris 11

I get this error: "Enter passphrase for key '/export/home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa' . Tried a few things and even went on the internet but no real help. Does anyone have any ideas?

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  • Chris W Beal-Oracle
    Chris W Beal-Oracle Member Posts: 33 Employee

    This is generic openssh really not Solaris specific. Do you have an ssh key for the user (I'd guess yes). It will be in the file /export/home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa on the target system. When it was generated using ssh-keygen you will have entered a pass phrase to encrypt it. It is that that ssh is asking for now. Have a look at the ssh-keygen(1) man page.

    To make it truly passwordless (ie you don't even want to enter the passphrase), you'll need to have an ssh-agent manage the ssh keys. Again the ssh-agent(1) man page has plenty of help here.

    It is perfectly possible to have one ssh-agent running on your source system, and have all instances of your shell talk to it so when you ssh to another host, the ssh-agent will provide the key.

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