[CentOS] Re: 2 SSH questions

At 06:42 PM 1/10/2006, Keith Morse wrote:
>Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > At 04:58 PM 1/10/2006, Keith Morse wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> And the cheap way I do this is  either "ssh-keygen -t dsa" or
> >> "ssh-keygen -t rsa" which creates the directory structure every time,
> >> and consistenly too.
> >
> >
> > Now I really believe I have something configured wrong....
> >
> > On my Astaro firewall, I had to create everything manually.  As it
> > does not have a Unix adduser or secure file upload.
> >
>
>Astaro??? Keithy confused now.  Was is loss, Astaro?.  (Don't answer
>that, I know what it is but have never used it).  My reply was based on
>connecting to a centos based server.

Just that with my Astaro, since v 3 up to my current v6, I have done 
this.  And since Astaro is based on Linux, and is using OpenSSH, what 
was my problem with Astaro.

Well it seems that permissions was a big part of it.

> > Of course I don't know what the -X option does.  My debian friend gave
> > me that command structure...
> >
>
>man ssh-keygen does even list -X as an option.  Maybe it's particular to
>that Debian distribution?

I noticed that while digging into all of this.  I will ask him when I 
get home, and also do some testing without it!

Actually, considering how long ago we first worked this out, it might 
be an SSH1 vestige that still works.