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Re: New ssh v2 and authentication



* Oleksandr Moskalenko (malex@purdue.edu) [011030 17:34]:
>  I use the same setup. In my authorized_keys2 I only have my sshd
> machine's public key (cut and paste from id_rsa.pub in its entirety).
> Then I copied both id_rsa and id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh on my remote machine.
>  It is maybe wrong to copy both, but my ssh-agent complains if I don't
> have id_rsa.pub on the remote machine. Then it basically started
> working. I have 

The private key is only required on the "local" machine. It's safest to
only keep it there, and then have your public key in the
authorized_keys2 file of all machines on which you have accounts. (You
don't need to keep separate files for each public key also; it just has
to be in authorized_keys2).

Also, if you're having trouble getting it working, also ensure that your
local ssh is looking the correct place for the private key. This can be
specified manually with -i on the command line or persistently with an
IdentityFile directive in the configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config or
~/.ssh/config)

good times,

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