Re: SSH again!
Hi all,
Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords?
One from the key and one from the login?
Currently, I only need to enter the login password.
that is why I do not understand what are these keys
for?
Nitebirdz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:26:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> > > hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm still confused about the keys file.
> > >
> > > I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase
> > > and it created two files in
> > > $HOME/.ssh/identify
> > > $HOME/.ssh/identify.pub
> > >
> > > I copy the identify.pub to machine-2:$HOME/.ssh/m1.key
> > > on machine-2, I ran the command on machine-2 to logon
> > > machin-1:
> > >
> > > ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/m1.key machine-1
> > >
> >
> > put the public key in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in order to allow
> > logins using the associated private key.
> >
> >
>
> Yeah, basically you need to rename that identity.pub file to
> authorized_keys on their other end as far as I remember. By the way, I
> don't really know what you're trying to do but if you did enter a
> passphrase you will not then be able to ssh or scp to that host without
> entering a password. I was just thinking that perhaps you're trying to
> set up the whole thing so that you are not prompted for a password at all,
> so you can run scripts remotely. So, if that is the case keep in mind
> that you do NOT need a passphrase.
>
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