identity is for version 1, right? did I mis-interpret the doc? Or that the key generation has nothing to do with protocol version? when I used identity, I also set my putty to use version 1 protocol.
"David A. Bandel" wrote: > > OK, time to understand what you're doing. -t rsa creates an ssh2 rsa key. > This is not standard. Try this: ssh-keygen putty said the dsa key was not secure. So I thought I should use rsa. that's why I used ssh-keygen -t rsa (putty also claimed that newer version of openssh used authorized_keys only. I don't want to bet on that) > For ssh2, try: > ssh-keygen -t dsa > let it save that to id_dsa and id_dsa.pub. then id_dsa.pub is copied to > the other system to authorized_keys2 (not authorized_keys). You can should I tick "version 2" in putty? actually, I tried using id_dsa, but failed. > substitute id_rsa.pub into authorized_keys2 if you want, but not all > systems will recognize this (and it's not as good as dsa). -- May the Force and Farce be with Linux and you. Join the friendly chit-chat in http://www.linux-sxs.org & news://news.hkpcug.org _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
