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. > So I followed my working 'instructions'. > > I used: > > /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -X -f ~/.ssh/identity.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > > and that worked fine on astaro, but not here. So I changed ..._keys2 > to ..._keys and no help. > > Oh, identity.pub was created with: > > cat > ~/.ssh/identity.pub > <copy clipboard that has public key in it> > CNTL+D Possibility of the clipboard corrupting the copied text? Adding newlines where they didn't exist before? Personally I copy .pub with scp to the destination host > > 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?