[CentOS] Re: 2 SSH questions

[Tony Schreiner]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:46 -0800, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 05:30 PM 1/10/2006, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:58 -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
> > > Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > > Also if I remember correctly, ssh2 references were deprecated somewhere
> > > along openssh 2.96 release.  Just ssh is used.  e.g.  /home/$username/.ssh/
> > >
> >
> >If the server is running the Tectia (formerly known as ssh.com) ssh
> >server, then the keys and other stuff are stored in ~/.ssh2/. And the
> >structure of the key files is different than with openssh.
> 
> And although, I probably only have to ask SSH, I do not want to go 
> the Tectia server route (I have various connections to them and have 
> received software in the past (like their client!), but need to wean 
> myself from $$ software).
> 
> I might have to 'bite the bullet' and push them to just help me get 
> this working (or I will write this up somewhere visible?  nah, I am not mean).
> 

The Tectia client interoperates perfectly well with OpenSSH server, so
you probably don't need to stick with their server. I just meant to
point out that you might have some files in the Tectia server format.

As has been said, use ssh-keygen on the server to generate your private
and public keys (and the ~/.ssh/ ) directory, and copy the public key to
your client.

I don't normally use the Tectia client with public keys, so I'm afraid I
can't remember if you need to convert the key to ssh2 format for the
Tectia client. You would do that with

ssh-keygen -t dsa -x
(if you used -t dsa when you created the key).

will output the ssh2 format public key to stdout

Tony