Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:09:58 -0600 (CST) From: Shawn Leas <sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> To: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh and scp Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980318150902.14423A-100000@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <19980318111124.A13158@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Jos Backus wrote: > 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? You are forgetting, opnly you have the secret key needed to make the public key useful. That is, if ssh uses a public/private key approach. Shawn > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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