Re: New ssh v2 and authentication

[Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>]

* Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) wrote:
> "Bill Wohler" <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> > "Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:
> > > I'm a bit confused by the fact that OpenSSH now defaults to using
> > > version 2. How do I use ssh-agent as I have in the past to do
> > > password-less logins?
> >   
> >   I posted a bug about the inconsistency, but apparently the "upstream
> >   authors" are dead set against making the utilities consistent. So,
> >   what to do...
> > 
> >   You've probably already figured it out since you were on the right
> >   track. But if not:
> > 
> > > In the past I'd  do this once with my pass phrase:
> > > 
> > > % ssh-keygen
> > > <blah,blah,blah>
> > 
> >   Now you run "ssh-keygen -t rsa"
> > 
> > > and copy the contents ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote machine
> > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
> > 
> >   Now you copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the remote
> >   machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2.
> > 
> > > then when I log in to my machine, which runs my window manager via
> > > ssh-agent, I'd do
> > > 
> > > % ssh-add
> > > <blah,blah,blah>
> > 
> >   Now you do "ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub".
> > 
> >   What were those upstream authors thinking?
> 
> That did the trick! The worst part about it is there's no mention of
> this in the man page. It talks about using identity.pub as default but
> nothing about specifying a different file.


SYNOPSIS
     ssh-add [-lLdD] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
     ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent,
     ssh-agent(1).  When run without arguments, it adds the file
     $HOME/.ssh/identity.  Alternative file names can be given on the command
     line.
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Tom.
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