From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 3:52: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAAC37B40D for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 03:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15eDoc-0002Im-00; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:52:22 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:52:22 +0100 From: Ceri To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: SSH and connection automation Message-ID: <20010904115222.A7708@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010903171657.A31458@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010903130118.D4A5C59D8@mark9.vladsempire.net> <20010904133449.H30499@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010904114259.A5560@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010904134717.J30499@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010904134717.J30499@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:47:17PM +0300 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 Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:47:17PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said: > * Ceri [20010904 13:42]: writing on the subject 'Re: SSH and connection automation' > | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:34:49PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said: > | > > | > If the man page for sshd isn't out of date then it's my dumbness. > | > I am looking at the section that specifies the format of the file > | > $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and don't understand where some items are > | > coming from. Yes, I've copied the identity.pub to authorized_keys and now > | > I want to edit authorized_keys but some examples on that man page have > | > left me stumped! > | > | Personally, I just have the one key, so I just do > | > | ln -sf identity.pub authorized_keys > | > | Ceri > > > And it works for you?? Yup. > debug: Bad key file /home/wash/.ssh/identity. I really don't like this line. Do you get something similar to this ? [ceri@cartman ceri]$ head -1 /home/ceri/.ssh/identity SSH PRIVATE KEY FILE FORMAT 1.1 [ceri@cartman ceri]$ If not, I suggest you generate a new keypair. Ceri -- I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message