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I'm trying to set up a passwordless login to the remote host.

First of all, I generated a key pair using this command

ssh-keygen -t dsa

However on the second step when I have to copy public key to the remote host I see .ssh2 folder instead of .ssh. This folder contains file ".authorization" and no ".authorized_keys2". I'm kind of lost at this point.

tom [local-host] /home/tom: ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009

tom [remote-host] /home/tom/: ssh -V
ssh: F-Secure SSH 3.2.0 (build 7) on rs6000-ibm-aix

Can you please advise on how to set it up properly?

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    I think this is off-topic for stackexchange, but I've voted to migrate it somewhere appropriate. If others agree it will get moved automatically.
    – Flexo
    Jul 4, 2011 at 15:04
  • @awoodland: suggestion for next time: Mention what target you voted for. In this case SuperUser and ServerFault are equally valid (IMO) and I don't know how it works if everyone votes for a different target ;)
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    Jul 4, 2011 at 15:32
  • true - I usually do, mention that, but I was undecided between superuser and serverfault and I didn't want to bias other voters judgement
    – Flexo
    Jul 4, 2011 at 15:37

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Take a deep look at this site, it even tells you how to convert from ssh1 to ssh2.

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Problems with password-less logins can be caused by many things (there are a lot of links in the chain, if any are broken the whole thing won't work), so this may not be just an SSH/SSH2 issue.

I notice that you mentioned an .authorized_keys2 file, but I've always used an authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 file (note there's no leading "."). I would recommend making a .ssh folder and appending your public key (probably the id_dsa.pub file) to .ssh/authorized_keys. Ensure the permissions are correct for this entire directory and try logging in again.

You may be able to debug the situation by running tail -f /var/log/secure if you've got permission on the remote server.

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