On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jeremy wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to my server remotly though SSH. I'm using
> the SSH extension to Tera Term on windows ME. I've created my keys
> (with a password) on the remote machine (the linux box)
You should do that from the client machine. The client machine (your
terminal) needs to have the private key available to it, the server only
needs to have the public key.
> and ftp'd it to my windows machine.
>From a security standpoint, the key is now worthless. "Private key"
authentication relies on you to never expose your private key. If you
must copy over the network, it should only be done using scp or sftp, so
that the contents are not exposed.
The public key on the other hand, is public. You can transfer it to the
server any way you like (nfs, ftp, http, ...) except that scp is still
best, as your password will not be exposed.
> I setup Tera Term to use the keys. But the server will never excpet
> the password.
What password? With keys there is no password, unless you created your
private key with a pass phrase. Make sure that on the server your .ssh
directory is mode 0700, and your public key has permissions not greater
than 0644. Usually, it's the permissions on the .ssh directory that cause
people trouble.
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