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I use the following commands on computer A to generate authentication key for ssh from computer A to computer B
ssh-keygen -t rsa scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub B:.ssh/authorized_keys2
If further I need to generate authentication keys for ssh from Computer C to...
Started by Tim on
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If you do ssh hoping (ssh to a, then from a to b, and from b to c....
Authorized_keys can have multiple key entries, you are not limited to one.
Some_key.pub to ssh-copy-id if you need to copy a specific pub key.
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I use SSH keys without passphrase with private/public keys.
I read O'reilly's SSH book that you can have encrypted SSH keys without passphrase by
SSH agent, Host based authentication, or Kerberos authentication I am not completely sure what they mean ...
Started by Masi on
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Run an SSH agent (a process that holds your keys, unlocked, for you temporarily):
eval $(....
Using ssh-agent you are able to type in your password to have your private key unlocked so that you the password from your keychain.
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How do you setup ssh to authenticate a user using keys instead of a username / password?
Started by ScArcher2 on
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Then they need to put the contents of their public key ( id_rsa.pub ) into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and paste the contents of your public key (likely in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ) in to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys....
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I understand that since Mac OS X Leopard the Keychain has supported storing SSH keys. Could someone please explain how this feature is supposed to work.
I have some RSA keys that I've generated stored in my ~/.ssh directory for accessing various servers...
Started by John Topley on
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Do you have ssh installed via ports? Try which ssh ....
To your ssh keys, but you say that you don't have passphrases set on those keys, so I'm not sure what youI suspect you aren't using the default ssh command.
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Hi.
I'm looking to switch from password based (which I starting to become overwhelmed with) to SSH keys based system.
I'd like to know if there any SSH keys management system or server solution, which would allow me to distribute and revoke keys over ...
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SSH is nice, but when you start to scale to large numbers of keys and ....
There's a ssh_key module for puppet which makes the whole thing trivially easy.
Sensible (as well as being the accepted answer [always a good sign!]) .
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I'm trying to set up SSH host keys from our Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server-based central backup server to our two Linux servers running Fedora 10 and CentOS 5.2. The process we usually take works and puts the key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, but it still ...
Started by morgant on
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Verify be defaults.)
RSAAuthentication....
$ ssh-keygen to ~/ssh/authorized_keys in the correct user's home directory on the CentOS/Fedora hosts.
I do not specify a passphrase when prompted.
Public/private key pair on the OS X server.
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Edit: What I really need to know WHICH ssh key from authorized_keys has been used to identify the currently logged on user.
According to "man sshd":
Protocol 2 public key consist of options, keytype, base64-encoded key, comment.
I see that when I use ...
Started by krosenvold on
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For RSA and DSA keys ssh-keygen tries to find the matching public key file and prints its/username/.....
Private RSA1 keys are also supported.
With ssh-keygen :
-l Show fingerprint of specified public key file.
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Created public/private keys using puttygen on my computer. put the public key in the .ssh/authorized_keys folder on the server setup pageant.exe to use the pk on my computer. when I run pageant, and connecting using putty it still asks me for my password...
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Make ....
That public key authentication must be enabled in the SSH server config (usually /etc/ssh/sshd://blog.codefront.net/2007/02/28/debugging-ssh-public-key-authentication-problems/
Simple thing that burned me ...
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I recently set up a new server with Ubuntu karmic 9.10, and when I created my home directory I chose to make it encrypted. Now, after loading my authorized_keys file into ~/.ssh, it isn't recognized because my home directory isn't decrypted until after...
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And if you're thinking....
Change this line in your sshd_config file:
AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/%u/authorized_keys
And then move your authorized_keys file to /etc/ssh/your-username/authorized_keys
This post documents another.
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I use a 4096 byte RSA PGP key; since SSH also uses the RSA standard, is it at all possible to use the PGP key as an SSH key without installing additional software on the server (and as little as possible on the client)?
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From SSH The Secure Shell
There are several ways, which may or may not work:
MonkeySphere openssh-gpg, and gpg-agent can act as a ssh agent too, but I couldn't figure out how to actually make ssh use the key for authentication....
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