Help regarding SSH on solaris 8

Question

Hi Guys,
I have installed SSH package on server as well as clients.
I think I need to these steps next.( We do not have proper docs for SSH)
Login as root on the server.
1) ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa -f /etc/ssh_hosts_key.pub -N " "
Login to root as the user.
2)ssh_keygen -b 1024 -t rsa
Enter the phrase
Basically this create 2 files in dir /home/<user_name>/.ssh. Copy id_rsa.pub as authorised_keys.
Copy this 3 files to the client machine in user directory
Login to client as root.
3) ssh-agent $SHELL
4)ssh-add <pahrase>
Is this correct? (Actually i dont properly know that these commands do)
Just wanted to check before i start expirementing on production boxes.
I am working solaris 2.8 on E6500.
Please help.

Answer 1

Hi
Step1 for just conencting thro ssh
ps -ef|grep ssh (to make sure the daemon is running)
Modify the sshd_config file and make rhe required changes
some of them
PasswordAuthentication
PermitRootLogin
StrictModes
PermitEmptyPasswords
once you make these changees stop and start the sshd daemon,now try to connect from your pc (thro putty or other ssh client tools ,it should connect
step2
password less login (using key exchange)
Generate the key as you have mentioned on system 1
ftp the .pub file over to system 2
go to system 2 do a ssh to the system and terminate (this will create a .ssh directory)
put the .pub from the system 1 here and also create a file called authorized_keys or the other way is cat the *.pub >authrozed_keys
make the same kind of chanegs to the sshd_config file on this system(system 2) and recycle the sshd daemon
Now try ssh from system 1 to 2 it should login with out asking for a password.
Hope this helps
Rgds
Gopih