On 2020-03-23 07:35, bruce wrote: > > In your example, exactly what is the > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ssh-copy-id bob@frk copying?? > > is the cmd copying the public key for meimei to the bob/.ssh dir/path It is copying/appending the public-key of user "egreshko" to the file bob/.ssh/authorized_keys. > > and does the > ssh bob@frk > log in as the actual 'bob' user, with the bob pub/private key?? The login is the actual user "bob" using the public-key of egreshko for authentication and having matched an entry in bob/.ssh/authorized_keys. If you then used "ssh -v bob@frk" you can see the processing. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx