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.