On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thomas Deliduka wrote:
> I'm sure this is an FAQ but the FAQ's I'm reading don't give me this
> information.
>
> I'm using openSSH 2.3.0 just installed it today on a linux box.
>
> I completely don't understand how to get the client setup to login to the
> system. I'm reading the ssh manual and I'm confused bigtime. I'm not a
> really huge linux user so that's one strike against me already.
>
> I am using a mac ssh client called none other than 'macssh' and it simply
> creates a public key for me to upload to the server (I guess) that's
> identity.ssh2.pub
>
> So, what the heck do I do with this? I don't know what to put in the .ssh
> directory. The information about authorized_keys and authorized_keys2 just
> confuse me. What should I be doing?
You are most likely making this too hard. Since you did not say what linux
distro you are using I cannot be too specific. However I will assume you
want to ssh from the mac into the linux box. In order to do this you need
to have an ssh server running on the linux box. The packages that I am used
to (eg: redhat) have an open-ssh, open-ssh-client and open-ssh-server.
I install all 3 and make sure the server is running. At that point it
just works. You can then read the manual or for that matter last months
and this months Linux Journal and find out other cool things todo with it.
For the inital setup you do NOT need to put anything in .ssh. The packages
will usually populate them for you.
HTH,
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Alan Cox lkml 11 Jan 01
