From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 18 02:12:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23633 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 02:12:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23464 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 02:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl) Received: from asterix.urc.tue.nl [131.155.5.10] by mailhost.tue.nl (8.8.8) id LAA09884 (ESMTP). Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:11:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from jbackus@localhost by asterix.urc.tue.nl (8.8.8) id LAA13836. Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:11:31 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980318111124.A13158@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:11:24 +0100 From: Jos Backus To: Matthew Hunt Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh and scp References: <350E6BC8.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> <19980317130555.37679@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.9 In-Reply-To: <19980317130555.37679@mph124.rh.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:05:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Matthew, On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:05:55PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Make sure that ~/.ssh/identity.pub exists on client. It is normally > there, as long as you have used ssh before. identity.pub contains my public key, right? > Append the contents of that file to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server. > If that file doesn't exist, create it with the contents of client's > identity.pub. What prevents somebody from storing my public key in his ~/.ssh/identity.pub and logging into server as me? I must be missing something here, but what? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ jbackus@urc.tue.nl _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message