hey ed.
I dont want to do pub private key for linda.. I'm thinking of situation where I'll be at a box that's not mine and want to get to my remote box... worst case I could just log in I suppose.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 8:37 AM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2020-03-26 20:24, Frederic Muller wrote:
> 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.
>
Welcome.
I should have added that if you no longer want linda to access bob you just remove her public key
from bob's authorized_keys file.
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