[CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

Always Learning centos at g7.u22.net
Thu Jan 27 14:39:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 02:39 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Also, there's a stack of reasons that DSA is preferred to RSA for SSH
> keys these days. When you generate your private keys, use "ssh-keygen
> -t dsa", not rsa.

RSA is the default if no cypher type is declared on the command line.

I've taken your helpful advise and replaced the RSA key with a DSA key;
put a passphrase on the key and then did a SSH-ADD which automatically
recognised the new key and added it.

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With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.





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