On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:20:15PM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed (ssahmed@pathcom.com) wrote: > >>>>> "kms" == kmself <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > kms> > kms> The following is a brief howto on using RSA key authentication > kms> for SSH sessions which I wrote for use at OpenSales. Note that > kms> the remote host needs to have RSA access enabled. This is > kms> assumed in the HOWTO, and is typically enabled by default. > kms> > kms> Corrections appreciated. > > Karsten, thanks for the howto. I did get this working and as I am typing > this email am logged into my home debian system from work. It was easier > than I thought since I am using a debian system at work and don't need > to worry about windows SSH clients, etc. > > kms> 2. Connect to the remote host. You don't have RSA > kms> authentication configured yet, so you'll have to use an old > kms> method such as walking up to the terminal or supplying a > kms> password. Add the new hostkey to the file > kms> ".ssh/authorized_keys". > kms> > kms> $ cat local-host.ssh >> .ssh/authorized.keys > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > that should be authorized_keys instead of authorized.keys. That got me > at first since I kept getting prompted to enter my password. Once I > changed the file to authorized_keys, everything works very well. Argh! ...and I had it in the document *right* about a half-dozen times (along with one instance of ".ssh/authorized keys", yep, with a space. Thanks to Salman and everyone else who've identified typos and inconsistancies in the document. This peer review thing actually does work, dammit! -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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