On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:23:55 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, John Doe wrote: > > > > > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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... ubuntu 10.10 (yes, really, development version constantly updated to track upcoming 10.10). in short, really new. so the current centos 5.5 ssh-copy-id command clearly(?) still has openssh V1 default set. not a big deal, just surprised me. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================