Problem platform: SunOS xxxxxx 5.11 oi_151a i86pc i386 i86pc
I've configured publickey auth for my personal account and can move between multiple servers with no password prompt. I've created an utility account that will be moving files and launching rsync tranfers and attempted pulbickey auth but that account always reverts to password authentication.
I'm assuming that there is a difference in how the accounts were created, but the only onethat I can find is that mine has role=root. When I assigned that role to the utility account it made no difference so I removed the role.
Steps used in setting up publickey auth:
# ssh-keygen -t rsa -N ""
# cp id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
# chmod 600 authorized_keys
# scp .ssh/* OtherServer:~/.ssh
I understand that the account on each server
should have its own key with all the key concatenated in authoriized_keys, but there will be dozens of servers involved and the method described is working on my user account and has been successfully applied in other data centers.
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