On 25 March 2011 12:47, Byte Soup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems if you add a new ssh key into seahorse it always generates a file > called "id_rsa.pub" and "id_rsa", renaming old ones to .1 etc, is that > correct?
No idea. I don't use Seahorse. > When you generate your keys is it always done as the user you are logged in > as? For example my user name on my machine might be "curtis" but I may want > to create a username login on my friends machine as "support" is that > possible and still able to generate a key? > I generate my key as me, my user ID, they are stored in .ssh in my home directory. If I want to logon to a remote machine which has a different user ID then I put my public key in that users folder on the remote machine. E.g. in /home/support/.ssh/authorized_keys - on the _remote_ machine. I can then do:- ssh supp...@remotehost.example.com or vncviewer -via supp...@remotehost.example.com localhost Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
