I'm running clusterKnoppix and desperately trying to get a cluster up and running. The closeset I've been able to get is that openmosixview shows my 2nd node as joined but red and non-functioning. I started getting messages about the connection from my node on port 22. It was timing out. I'm assuming that I need to fix SSH and I have read that SSH needs to be passwordless for openmosix to really use it. Sooo, I did an experiment: Load 2 boxes both with clusterKnoppix, get an id_rsa.pub set up on it, and then copy it from my other computer.

What I got was annoying. I have vi'ed into the sshd_conf file and allowed empty passwords. I've also allowed PubkeyAuthorization. When I create the ssh-key, I leave the pass phrase blank. When I get on my other computer, i attempt to scp the id_rsa.pub file into my system into an authorized_key file...but it prompts me for the Password:. I can't give Password: anything it likes. I'm not even sure what password its asking me for? Root? The pass phrase?. I even did passwd on the first computer and set the root password....and it would not accept what i set for Roots password. What am I missing here?