Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:23:13 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Joakim Ryden <jo@ForumOne.Com> Subject: RE: Login Message-ID: <XFMail.000925142313.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <00092423491001.09773@dave.uhring.com>
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On 25-Sep-00 Dave Uhring wrote: > If the client box doesn't have your public key in its > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file, it will be unable to generate the encrypted > random number it needs to send for authentication. On each client box, That is untrue, you do NOT need to have someones public key in your authorized keys file for them to be able to securly login. Adding their public key to your authorized keys file will allow them to login using RSA authentication (ie public/private key checking) however. > Placing > your master box's public key in authorized_keys works. Errm I think you should have a good read of the man pages :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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