On 3/26/20 7:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. > > Yes much better advice :-) Thank you. 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
