Re: keys.

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham@redwood.taos.com)
Date: 04/25/03

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From: Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:59:06 GMT

Rudi Swennen <Rudi.Swennen@oma.be> wrote:
> Hello,

> As user A on machine B I would like to log in on a machine C as user D.
> I would like to login with keys so no passwords, what do I have to doe?

> When I do ssh-keygen -t dsa on machine B as user A, I get 2 files id_dsa
> and id_dsa.pub. Where do I have to copy these files to log in correctly.

The contents of the pub file need to be in the
~userD/.ssh/authorized_keys file on machine C.

Then you'd do ssh userD@machineC from machine B.

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