On 06/30/2017 06:14 PM, William Oliver wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 10:23 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> [snip] >> >> If you cannot set up a key on the foreign machine ahead of time, yes >> stick your >> "travelling" key on a USB stick and use it. That way you can revoke >> it if >> somehow it gets comprimised. >> >> Cheers, >> Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > > You know, I don't like to sound stupid, but I've tried to set this up, > and I've never gotten it to work reliably. Inevitably I get frustrated > and go back to password based ssh. Is there an Idiot's Guide to > setting this up somewhere? Uh, mount the USB stick somewhere and use something like: ssh -i /path/to/usb/stick/name-of-your-identity-file user@host e.g. mkdir ~/usbstick mount /dev/sdb1 ~/usbstick ssh -i ~/usbstick/my_id_rsa_file rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx I believe the identity file must still have the right permissions (0600 or "rw-------" and that it's the identity file, NOT the public identity key file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
