Hi all, Don't I suppose to get two prompts for two passwords? One from the key and one from the login?
Currently, I only need to enter the login password. that is why I do not understand what are these keys for? Nitebirdz wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:26:55AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > > hi All, > > > > > > I'm still confused about the keys file. > > > > > > I ran the ssh-keygen on machine-1 with passphrase > > > and it created two files in > > > $HOME/.ssh/identify > > > $HOME/.ssh/identify.pub > > > > > > I copy the identify.pub to machine-2:$HOME/.ssh/m1.key > > > on machine-2, I ran the command on machine-2 to logon > > > machin-1: > > > > > > ssh -i $HOME/.ssh/m1.key machine-1 > > > > > > > put the public key in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys in order to allow > > logins using the associated private key. > > > > > > Yeah, basically you need to rename that identity.pub file to > authorized_keys on their other end as far as I remember. By the way, I > don't really know what you're trying to do but if you did enter a > passphrase you will not then be able to ssh or scp to that host without > entering a password. I was just thinking that perhaps you're trying to > set up the whole thing so that you are not prompted for a password at all, > so you can run scripts remotely. So, if that is the case keep in mind > that you do NOT need a passphrase. > > -- > Nitebirdz > http://www.linuxnovice.org > Tips, articles, news, links...
