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...
rday