Subject: RE: Non-root ssh
From: Larry Collier (larry@medease.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 14:48:31 AKST
Sorry, didn't answer all the questions.
as user on your workstation, ssh asks for your pass phrase. Ssh on local
cpu and sshd on remote "server" compare their views of your pass phrase and
sshd (remote) decides to accept or not.
To see waht a key looks like, after running ssh-keygen,
cat ~/.ssh/identity.pub
It's not really a password, here. the documentation recommends using a
phrase. My understanding of the crypto magic is that longer is better, but
the upper/lower/numbers/special that passwords should have aren't strictly
necessary unless you use a short phrase.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Barsalou [mailto:mbarsalou@aidea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:13 PM
To: 'Larry Collier'; aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: Non-root ssh
Sorry about the lack of info there.
RH 8.0. sshd is in fact running. Running ssh 3.x
I think the piece that I am really missing is:
What is the file name used to store the public key on the remote machine?
What does an entry in that file look like?
If I understand it correctly, I initiate the session.
sshd looks in this file to see if I exist.
Denies or allows me after typing in my user/password pair based partly on
what is in this file?
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Collier [mailto:larry@medease.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:21 PM
To: Mike Barsalou; aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: Non-root ssh
Mike,
Which ssh are you using? Have you started the daemon on the destination
computer? Which distribution?
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Mike Barsalou
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:58 PM
To: 'aklug@aklug.org'
Subject: Non-root ssh
I want to setup ssh so that I can login as a non-root user....what are the
basic steps for this?
I have been reading through the docs and I am getting clues, but I am
missing something.
Anyone have any good ideas?
Mike
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