Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-06 Thread Russell Johnson
On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: The main thing is that you are sure you have the right public key. So, you could pipe the public key through sha512sum or something and recite the hash over the phone to be sure it's the same at both ends. The public

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-06 Thread Ronald Bynoe
And if you're Cisco, you also embed your private key in the firmware of your VoIP product line so you don't lose it. Just in case you wanted a really easy backdoor for the entire platform shipped with every piece of hardware. Security is important! (; On Jul 6, 2014 10:31 AM, Russell Johnson

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-06 Thread Pete Lancashire
If your granting him limited access lock him from going outside his home directory tree. Enable auditing, look at the logs from time to time. Recent versions of sshd can restrict to a IP/range. A few to.start with. On Jul 4, 2014 6:35 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com wrote: Question?

[PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
Question? Without getting into incompetence, impersonation, man-in-the-middle, drugs and pipe wrenches ... I have a friend in another state who I want to give ssh access to on one of my machines. If I understand ssh key exchange, 1) he makes a private/public key pair for openssh 1a) using

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Steve Dum
most recent distributions of ssh just use 'authorized_keys'. It wouldn't hurt having both, but then you won't know which is required :-). I guess, 'man ssh' will tell you there right answer. But who reads docs. (Ubuntu 14.4 no longer mentions authorized_keys2) Dont forget permissions for the

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 06:35:03PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Question? Without getting into incompetence, impersonation, man-in-the-middle, drugs and pipe wrenches ... I have a friend in another state who I want to give ssh access to on one of my machines. If I understand ssh key

Re: [PLUG] ssh public/private key login authentication?

2014-07-04 Thread Russell Senior
Keith == Keith Lofstrom kei...@gate.kl-ic.com writes: Keith Question? Without getting into incompetence, impersonation, Keith man-in-the-middle, drugs and pipe wrenches ... Keith I have a friend in another state who I want to give ssh access Keith to on one of my machines. If I understand ssh