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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:44:01 +0000
From: Martijn Koster <mak@excite.com>
To: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ssh and scp
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:11:24AM +0100, Jos Backus wrote:
> 	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?

Yes.
 
> > 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?

The fact that only _you_ have your private key (~/.ssh/identity), with
which you essentially prove the corresponding public key is yours. So
guard your private key...

-- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com


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