I have tried everything I can think of to get my hosts to authenticate via ssh without requiring a password. Nothing works. I have tried generating new keys with ssh-keygen and then putting the .pub key in the remote machines authorized_keys file, but that does not seem to be working either. Everything I have read says it should be working...Here is the -v results from my latest attempt, does anyone have any idea why this is not working, or can offer advice of what to try next? I want to use this for an automated mirror, so it cannot ask for a password. command> ssh -v 10.0.0.21 SSH Version 1.2.26 [i586-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. dev.myurl.com: Reading configuration data /usr/man/man6/ssh_config dev.myurl.com: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 0 dev.myurl.com: Allocated local port 1023. dev.myurl.com: Connecting to 10.0.0.21 port 22. dev.myurl.com: Connection established. dev.myurl.com: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version OpenSSH_2.5.2p2 dev.myurl.com: Waiting for server public key. dev.myurl.com: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). dev.myurl.com: Host '10.0.0.21' is known and matches the host key. dev.myurl.com: Initializing random; seed file /root/.ssh/random_seed dev.myurl.com: Encryption type: idea dev.myurl.com: Sent encrypted session key. dev.myurl.com: Installing crc compensation attack detector. dev.myurl.com: Received encrypted confirmation. dev.myurl.com: Trying rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv with RSA host authentication. dev.myurl.com: Server refused our rhosts authentication or host key. dev.myurl.com: No agent. dev.myurl.com: Trying RSA authentication with key 'root@dev.myurl.com' dev.myurl.com: Remote: Bad file modes for /root dev.myurl.com: Server refused our key. dev.myurl.com: Doing password authentication.

Make sure your hosts key files are chmod 600 ~K Black