Someone has suggested that PuTty's default config'n works "out of the box" with e-smith... I guess my question is where do we get a private key (et al.) for authentication, if this is required? Surely, there must be -something- sent from one party to the communications to the other, if there is to be authentication; and that something must go by floppy, or other non Internet means, if the authentication result is to be believed. Or... are we missing something, here?