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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:52:22 +0100
From:      Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SSH and connection automation
Message-ID:  <20010904115222.A7708@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010904134717.J30499@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:47:17PM %2B0300
References:  <20010903171657.A31458@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010903130118.D4A5C59D8@mark9.vladsempire.net> <20010904133449.H30499@ns2.wananchi.com> <20010904114259.A5560@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010904134717.J30499@ns2.wananchi.com>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:47:17PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said:
> * Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> [20010904 13:42]: writing on the subject 'Re: SSH and connection automation'
> | On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:34:49PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington said:
> | > 
> | > If the man page for sshd isn't out of date then it's my dumbness.
> | > I am looking at the section that specifies the format of the file
> | > $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys and don't understand where some items are
> | > coming from. Yes, I've copied the identity.pub to authorized_keys and now
> | > I want to edit authorized_keys but some examples on that man page have
> | > left me stumped!
> | 
> | Personally, I just have the one key, so I just do
> | 
> | ln -sf identity.pub authorized_keys
> | 
> | Ceri
> 
> 
> And it works for you??

Yup.

> debug: Bad key file /home/wash/.ssh/identity.

I really don't like this line.

Do you get something similar to this ?

[ceri@cartman ceri]$ head -1 /home/ceri/.ssh/identity
SSH PRIVATE KEY FILE FORMAT 1.1
[ceri@cartman ceri]$

If not, I suggest you generate a new keypair.

Ceri

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