Re: Passwordless ssh, "once and for all"...

From: Meelis Kiisel (laurentce@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/17/02

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    From: "Meelis Kiisel" <laurentce@hotmail.com>
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:44:46 +0000

    Hi,

    Bobby Patel wrote:
    >Steps:
    /../
    >3a. copy id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys2 (if authorized_keys2 doesn't exist
    >create it ) file on Machine 1.
    /../

    Can anyone explain why public keys should be in "authorized_keys2" and not
    in "authorized_keys" simply? OpenSSH's manpage mentions only the latter one.

    Meelis

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