On 3/26/20 6:19 PM, 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? > > 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.. > > thanks > > > Dear Bruce, Yes you need to copy your private key to .ssh and then do a normal ssh bob@remoteserver. If your key has a passphrase protection you might consider it safe enough as Linda won't be able to log in to remoteserver and remoteserver will still be well secured. Else, yes, you will need to remote that key if you don't want Linda to be able to log in remoteserver. Fred _______________________________________________ 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
