On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:23:55 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote:
From: Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca
If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used
My man page says: "~/.ssh/identity.pub"...
argh ... sorry, i was logged into the wrong system when reading the man page, i was connected to my ubuntu system. interesting that different distros have different default files for the same command. i will definitely remember that.
My my (CentOS 5.5) man ssy-keygen:
~/.ssh/identity.pub Contains the protocol version 1 RSA public key for authentica- tion. The contents of this file should be added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on all machines where the user wishes to log in using RSA authentication. There is no need to keep the contents of this file secret.identity.pub is *OpenSSH V1* public key file. How old is the ubuntu system? Is OpenSSH V1 or V2 installed? The V1 RSA protocol is old available for older systems...
ubuntu 10.10 (yes, really, development version constantly updated to track upcoming 10.10). in short, really new. so the current centos 5.5 ssh-copy-id command clearly(?) still has openssh V1 default set. not a big deal, just surprised me.
rday