I don't think RDi tries to use the key.
In the below you are setting up to use SSH from the IBMi to a PC. The public key gets copied from the location you are connecting from to the location you are connecting to.
On an LPAR that I didn't have keys set up, I connected with SSH, and it required me to use my password. I created a secure connection to the LPAR in RDi, and connected. If I was connected, and sshd wasn't running on the IBMi, then it prompted me to start sshd. If I was connected, and sshd was running, it just debugged normally. If I wasn't connected, and started debug, it prompted me for a user name and password. I created new keys on my PC ( running Ubuntu 20.04 ) and put the public key in my home directory on the IBMi in the .ssh/authorized_keys file. I was able to SSH from the PC to the IBM i without having to use a password. I added the key to the SSH section of RDi, and reran all my tests, and got the exact same results.
I'm not able to test from ACS because I've always gotten an error when I launch SSH from there. It tells me that one of the parms on the SSH command is invalid, but it doesn't show the command, so I don't know what it trying to do that is invalid. As I am running linux for my workstation, I almost always have a terminal up, so it hasn't been a problem for me to just manually connect.
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 13:06 +0000, Justin Taylor wrote:
The keys are working for anything. Based on the feedback I got from the main MIDRANGE-L list, I think this might be the wrong direction overall. I removed the keys I created and contacted IBM support.
Thanks
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I went thru the steps on IBMi to create a key, and I copied the contents from IBMi (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) to a new file on my PC (c:\users\user_name_here\.ssh\authorized_keys). Unfortunately, it didn't make a difference. I'm still get the popup message in RDi.
Does anyone know where I went wrong?
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