Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:44:01 +0000 From: Martijn Koster <mak@excite.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: <19980318114401.64487@excite.com> In-Reply-To: <19980318111124.A13158@asterix.urc.tue.nl>; from Jos Backus on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:11:24AM %2B0100 References: <350E6BC8.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> <19980317130555.37679@mph124.rh.psu.edu> <19980318111124.A13158@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:11:24AM +0100, 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? Yes. > > 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? The fact that only _you_ have your private key (~/.ssh/identity), with which you essentially prove the corresponding public key is yours. So guard your private key... -- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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