Re: Public key SSH with Midnight Commander
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.
Use sshfs
Regards,
Atis
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