[PLUG] SSH2 Public Key Authentication

Patrick Leckey Patrick.Leckey at xist.com
Tue Apr 9 19:44:42 UTC 2002


Thanks Bill.  I found what I needed from ya.  :)  I guess I just expressed myself backwards.  The option I was looking for was 
the -i option in ssh-keygen.

Pat.

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:34:37PM -0700, Longman, Bill wrote:
> See the -e and -y options of ssh-keygen.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Leckey [mailto:Patrick.Leckey at xist.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:27 PM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: [PLUG] SSH2 Public Key Authentication
> > 
> > 
> >         Hey ho there pluggers.  I have a client running Win98 
> > that has to have SSH access to one of our boxes in the office.
> > I have this box set up on SSH2 and authorizing through public 
> > keys.  The client uses SecureCRT as his SSH2 client, and his
> > public key is output as such...
> > 
> > ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
> > Subject: <name>
> > Comment: <comment>
> > AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAIzFfRP1V/uMsId/RdhghxBLeu42qoNxXMEt2URPT4GtnATK
> > lTPAPupRoj/6GlHTHoUjzethznqcx+yEOIcq3YFgj657x7+b3ocJYiThtx3by71hfQWn
> > X1hfn3QITGEqQsoa2K9Eikr+gPreP8kC7n+ZiCuARe+DxjTCMqyVvsZHAAAAFQDHhVC3
> > jeW1TWYV/KnbPrJbBC1PPQAAAIAM+yHBxgg2z9ypV/elMlAgZ2m48iuYsMahx/tD/bHi
> > UVlvLAhJ/4nCV/8z5ACdGfdCo+VEWehPHGJe960eiphdAMApEW8iXLEsY+05kfLEG9zd
> > kTdIRKMBf+LxXfuGOTBuQyp3emf7v1TY+q2IyReGlSyvjLecD/kbZl4pfyZeNAAAAIB5
> > ko5X3k0HMI26qDHWQUHPdfhRgchPlca3/pVi0Skb2dlRyl1EkovXs9dH0iAf6hcT3gHp
> > NdULRJjhrKQpRMtW5yOt+aalGuh71o4kd3YSIFwQkXfEGl+7iw6BL11+Zto+BwVsXt2W
> > f3jn+7iDnh3e1NXGbQuLjfnxbghYs4mpTQ==
> > ---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
> > 
> > Which obviously is not of the same format as the 
> > authrozed_keys2 file in the ~user/.ssh directory.  I have 
> > tried changing it
> > to the following format:
> > 
> > ssh-rsa <key goes here> <comment>
> > 
> > but it still says the public key is invalid... I don't wanna 
> > waste too much time on setting up a windows client... any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Patrick Leckey	    [Patrick.Leckey at xist.com]
> > XIST Inc.; Information, Services & Technology
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