On 2020-03-26 19:19, bruce wrote: > Hey. > > My apologies. I now I've asked this/solved this before. can't findwhere I > placed the soln. > > I have a remote VM. I've created a private/public ssh key for user 'bob' The > public key is in the required location on the remote VM. > > On my normal local box,, logged in as user 'bob' I have the private key. I > can login as user bob - > ssh bob@remoteServer1 > this works, no prob. > > My question > If I'm on user "linda"s machine, logged in as linda, what do I need to do to > be able to ssh into the remote server as user 'bob'?? > > Do I place the private key of user 'bob' in the required ssh file within user > linda's ssh dir?
Absolutely not. Private mean "private". You never take a user's private key and give it to another user. > > Which implies that I then need to remove the private key once I leave if I > don't want linda accessing the remote box later on.. > If "linda" wants to "ssh bob@remoteServer1" the procedure is the same. The user "linda" runs "ssh-keygen" to generate her own key-pair. Then you can manually append linda's public-key to bob's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys or linda runs "ssh-copy-id bob@remoteServer1". To do the ssh-copy-id she would need to know the password of bob. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
