On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Ragnar Wiencke wrote:
> user on the Linux box, key in the passphrase and end up getting two
> files, identity and identity.pub. And here is where my problem starts,
> that is, I don't know what to do with those two files. Is there anyone
Neither file is required to use ssh. However, if you want to use public
key authentication instead of passwords, you need to add identity.pub to
your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote system. Keys without the
.pub suffix are private keys, and should NEVER be shared with a remote
system.
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