Joe, I had to build an ext3 filesystem on my usb key to do this. Obviously, it won't mount on windows boxes now, but that's fine for me.
A neat side effect of building it ext3 was that the machine I used to build it now can't boot without the key. There are easy ways around this. Matt Frye On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:43:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need my ssh private keys on several machines at different locations > over which I don't have a lot of control. The keys are backed up > to tape and I don't have control of the tapes either. Instead of leaving > my private key on a whole lot of different disks, I thought of having > my private key on a mountable usb device (with ext3 filesystem), > but my uid/gids are different at different locations and the 600 private > key is only readable at one location. > > I was hoping that something like > > mount -t ext3 -o uid=my_name,gid=my_group /dev/zip /mnt > > (with /dev/zip owned by root) > would work, but these options give errors (bad option). > `man mount` doesn't show these options for ext2/3 filesystems. > > I then tried mounting the /proc/bus/usb filesystem with devuid=my_name. > The usb devices are all owned by me, but then the filesystems on > the usb device still have their original ownerships > > How do I use a removable private key on different machines? > > Thanks Joe > > --- > Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation > LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 > Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
