Phillip Lord wrote: > Okay, solved the problem. You are correct, I had different id_rsa keys > on the two machines (I thought that they were synced, between my > machines, but there are not, which is probably a good thing as it > happens).
Yay! I think it is a good thing that they are different too. > I thought I might have got my pairs mixed up (so I had an unmatched > public/private pair), but that wasn't true. The, for me, unexpected > thing was that I *had* checked my public key against the only on > savannah on my work machine; and, indeed, they were the same, for the > first 60 or so characters. Rather a surprise to me; I assumed that > public keys were (effectively) random, and checking the start should > have been enough. I always keep different keys on different systems. That way if there were a compromise on one system then I can disable just that key and not lose access from other good systems. Since Savannah can support multiple keys (don't know if you already did this) but I would simply register the second key on your work machine. Then you would have access from both systems as you are desiring but each could be disabled independently. > Anyway, all fixed now. Sorry for the time waste, and many thanks! It was no trouble at all. You are most welcome. Bob
