[FATAL] [INS-44000] Passwordless SSH connectivity is not setup

Faced this while running installer for setting up a 2 node RAC setup (version 19.8) on an Oracle SuperCluster. The error reported in the log is: [FATAL] [INS-44000] Passwordless SSH connectivity is not setup from the local node node1 to the following nodes: [node2] [INS-06006] Passwordless SSH connectivity not set up between the following node(s): [node2] From the error it appears that the ssh is not setup between two nodes but actually that is not the case. Here the error message is bit misleading. It turned out to be an issue with scp with openssh version 8.x. Running the setup with -debug option gives the clue: ...

March 10, 2021 at 6:17 PM · 1 min · 212 words · Amardeep Sidhu