Re: Public key SSH with Midnight Commander
* Atis <atis@BEST.eu.org> [2007 Aug 17 10:55 -0500]:
> 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
That still doesn't work. I get:
read: Connection reset by peer
It doesn't seem to be able to let me specify a path to the
~/.ssh/id_remote file and then prompt for a password like the -i option
of ssh. It does work okay with a host that uses the default id_r|dsa
filename, but I use a different key for different hosts and must
specify the correct key to ssh. Does sshfs support this?
Ideas?
- Nate >>
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