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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:11:24 +0100
From: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ssh and scp
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Hi Matthew,
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:05:55PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> Make sure that ~/.ssh/identity.pub exists on client. It is normally
> there, as long as you have used ssh before.
identity.pub contains my public key, right?
> Append the contents of that file to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server.
> If that file doesn't exist, create it with the contents of client's
> identity.pub.
What prevents somebody from storing my public key in his ~/.ssh/identity.pub
and logging into server as me?
I must be missing something here, but what?
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