From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 2: 1:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0941237B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 02:01:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.120.160.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E313843F93 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 02:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from lothlorien.nagual.st (dick@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/arwen) with ESMTP id h1NA0YjY010475; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:00:34 +0100 Received: (from dick@localhost) by lothlorien.nagual.st (8.12.3/8.12.3/local) id h1NA0YsP010473; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:00:34 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:00:34 +0100 To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: fbsd backup 2 remote Message-ID: <20030223100034.GA10205@nagual.st> References: <20030222145404.GA251@pooh.nagual.st> <20030222160437.GA5430@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20030222210343.GA18760@nagual.st> <20030222214628.GB7546@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030222214628.GB7546@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Feb Matthew Seaman wrote: > Generate an ssh key in the usual way: > > # ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa > > which will prompt you for a passphrase. Enter one. The command will > create two files: > > id_rsa (the private key) and > > id_rsa.pub (the public key) > > Move 'id_rsa' in /root/.ssh and make sure it has the right ownership [cut the rest of the info] It works great! Very simple if you know how to act ;) I understand that I have to copy my public key to all machines I want to have a remote login-to. So far so good.. But what do I do ON another machine (in my intranet)? Do I use *another* private key there or can I just use the one I have on my "main" machine? Thanks for all your help. Keeping copies of them :-)) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message