Re: [PLUG] ssh

[darxus@chaosreigns.com]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael Whitman wrote:

> I am trying to get a secure alternative to telnet running on my Rh 
> machine.  I found out about ssh.  I also need to use a NT 4 ssh client.  I 
> see that www.ssh.com has software that isn't free.  I downlaoded and 
> installed the OpenSSH 2.1.1 rpm and installed it, and I installed an NT 
> client called Tera Term Pro (http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html), but 
> teratermpro doesn't recognize the public keys that that the OpenSSH's 
> ssh-keygen or ssh-keygen2 produces.

I'm trying to figure out what you meant at the end of that last
sentance.  I think you got something confused.

You need to generate a key pair for each of your clients, and insert the
public key of each pair into the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.  

Ah, reading that about the 10th time, it sounds like you're generating
keys on the server, and then trying to get the client to use them.  That's
backwards.  You need to generate the keys on the client, and insert them
on the server.  Or not use keys.

You can use the same key pair for multiple client machines, but I noticed
that the private keys that SecureCRT generates are not compatible w/ the
OpenSSH client.  

I'm also very fond of putty.  I always find it by doing a www.google.com
search for putty.  It's free -- released under the GPL.  But it doesn't do
keys.  In general, most of the cases where I want to use a windows ssh
client, I'm not comfortable enough with the security of that box (hey,
it's windows) to leave private keys there anyway.  If I ever want to do
that, I think I may try running OpenSSH under cygwin (both of which can be
found via google searches).

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