Re: Public key SSH with Midnight Commander

[Csányi Pál <csanyipal@csanyi-pal.info>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:10:26PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Atis <atis@BEST.eu.org> [2007 Aug 17 10:55 -0500]:
> > On 8/17/07, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> wrote:
> > > I have my SSH set up to use only public key authentication between my
> > > laptop and my remote host--no password fallback, no PAM.  So, I
> > > initiate a session using:
> > >
> > > $ ssh -i .ssh/id_remote remote.host.ip.address
> > >
> > > Then I am prompted for the password of the .ssh/id_remote file which
> > > resides on the laptop.
> > >
> > > This works well (X11 Forwarding even!), but when I've tried Midnight
> > > Commander or Konqueror using the fish protocol, I get errors.  In
> > > experimenting, it appears to me that fish only uses password
> > > authentication.  How can I make this work with public key only as I'm
> > > using?
> > >
> > > I want to keep my SSH access as secure as possible by using only public
> > > key authentication.

I use ssh access to the remote debian system with RSA public key.

I can use Midnight Commander to access remote directories with fish; then I 
must to enter the remote password for the remote user and the / directory is 
open for me.

In MC I open a Shell connection, 
give the remote user@system /#sh:remote_user-name@remote_host-name
enter the password for that remote user, and open the remote / directory.

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