Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is easily done when: > > I have a useraccount on both machines under the same name (i.e. > kevin) and
This isn't a requirement; > I've generated a public key on my home machine using ssh-keygen and > > copied that key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file on the host. > > But in my present case, the useraccount on my home box (client) is > kevin, but the useraccount on the shared server (host) box is butakun. > > When I generate the publickey on the home box, it generates a key for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can upload this to the SSH server (host), but automatic > signin obviously isn't going to happen. Have you tried? The label on an ssh keypair is just a label; you can change it if you want, but it doesn't particularly need to match the username or hostname you're ssh'ing from. A very common thing to do is to drop a bunch of public keys into root's authorized_keys file, for example, so that a specified set of administrators can securely log in to the machine from their own accounts without knowing (or possibly even having) the root password. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
