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

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:09:07 -0700, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> > On a related topic. My understanding of ssh and key authentication is
> > too limited at this point. Currently I'm just using standard password
> > authentication when I ssh to the CLUE server, but I would like to
> > switch to public key authentication. The one wrinkle is, I have a
> > multi-boot system - one system is gentoo the other is slack. When I
> > generate a private/public key pair, can I simply copy my private key
> > to ~/.ssh/authorized keys on both my systems so that I can login using
> > the public key I've copied to my CLUE server account?
> 
> The authorized_keys[2] file goes on the destination server. As long as
> your /home/username/.ssh directory, under both boots has the .ssh
> directory with the id_rsa or id_dsa file, I think you'l be ok, unless
> there's some system-id stuff encoded into the private key. But I don't
> think that's the case. (Maybe nodename?)
> 

OK, this works. I've just created keys, copied the private one to both
my systems, the public one to the clue server, and I can login using
my public key from either of my systems.

-- 
 Collins