Using Peter Manis' tutorial on Public Key authentication at URL: http://pyverted.com/sysadmin/ssh-public-key-authentication/2008/10/ I was able to get SSH up and running with a public key authentication on my friend sam's computer. Everything worked great. I did not execute the commands: exec ssh-agent /bin/bash ssh-add
until the next day, when I realized that I had not done it the day before. The two computers were not connected when I executed these commands. I am assuming that these commands can be executed on the local machine only, and the remote machine doesn't need to know about them. am I correct. also, when I did the command: sudo /etc/init.d/sshd reload bash reported: "command not found" nevertheless, I want the 2 features that this command provides, which are: 1. Removes the ability to login to the server with a password, you can only login to the server using a public key. 2. Limit the machine that you can login from. The remotemach must have the key for the localmach in the authorized_keys file before authentication can be performed. Is there something I can to to configure these features, or is there a way to addthese commands to my bash commands?Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_112008
