On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Rob Echlin wrote: > Hi Rob,
> 1) > I believe that the location where the SSH server looks for keys can > be configured in /etc in its config fiile. Is that on a read-only > location, too? i know about that, here's the sshd_config line for that: #AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys but the root filesystem is extracted from a squashfs so i don't know *where* i have write permission (if any). > > 2) > Given what you do every day, I think there is some possibility that you are > going to burn the file system on the remote > system yourself. > <g> > > If that is the case, create the .ssh folder with 1 or more public keys in it > before you burn it. > Copy the private key to whatever system(s) you are working from. > Don't use the passwordless option for your private key. <g> don't think that's going to work either, as public keys might not be available ahead of time. it's actually fine to conclude that this just isn't going to work. all i wanted to confirm is that i wasn't missing anything obvious. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux