Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > . > I would recommend....AND it is recommended to create RSA keys instead of DSA keys for ssh key-pairs