[clue-admin] User setup for "member" accounts

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:34:22 -0700
Collins Richey wrote:

> ok, I don't understand this yet.
> 
> 1. I created a dummy user on my system and logged in there.
> 2. I did 'ssh-keygen -t dsa'. The process prompted me for a filename
> and a passphrase.
> 3. I did scp filename.pub
> junk at clue.denver.co.us:/home/junk/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>     scp prompted me for the password I created on the clue server
>     copy completed ok.
> 4. I veriified that the file was present on
> /home/junk/.ssh/authorized_keys2 5. I tried sftp junk at clue.denver.co.us
>     I get a promt for password for user junk, and neither the actual
> password on the clue
>     server nor the passphrase I embedded in the key are accepted.
> 
> What am I missing?

Well, I never tried it using a different filename than the default. ssh
uses a key pair. So the question is, what is the file containing the
private portion of the key-pair whose public portion is filename.pub. ssh
has to know where this file is, and to use it instead of the default for
the private part.

As I said, I haven't tried it with different keyfile names.

jed
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