ssh asking for password after proper key exchange??
807559Nov 2 2006 — edited Nov 3 2006First time poster here and I would love some help if possible.
I have an RSA key exchange going on so I don't have to login to the target server from a source server. I copied the id_rsa.pub key to a target server and added it to the .ssh/authorized_keys file. I am still being asked for the users password when I ssh from the source to the target. On the record, I did not create the public and private keys on the source server. However, I have had no problems exchanging the same public key to other servers until now. As a test, I copied that same public key to my personal account on the same server I am having problems with and I was not asked for a password from the same source server to the same target server with my ID. So, I have a good suspicion that the problem is with the ID I am having problems authenticating with. The target server runs an Oracle database 9i and the user is used to import all sorts of data to the db using sqlldr. So, this id has all sorts of variables set in the .profile file for Oracle. This same user is setup on other qa/dev/staging environments with the same .profile and it works just fine with the key exchange. So, I am stumped.
Any thoughts?