Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 06:42 PM 1/10/2006, Keith Morse wrote:
>
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> > At 04:58 PM 1/10/2006, Keith Morse wrote:
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> And the cheap way I do this is either "ssh-keygen -t dsa" or
>> >> "ssh-keygen -t rsa" which creates the directory structure every time,
>> >> and consistenly too.
>> >
>> >
>> > Now I really believe I have something configured wrong....
>> >
>> > On my Astaro firewall, I had to create everything manually. As it
>> > does not have a Unix adduser or secure file upload.
>> >
>>
>> Astaro??? Keithy confused now. Was is loss, Astaro?. (Don't answer
>> that, I know what it is but have never used it). My reply was based on
>> connecting to a centos based server.
>
>
> Just that with my Astaro, since v 3 up to my current v6, I have done
> this. And since Astaro is based on Linux, and is using OpenSSH, what
> was my problem with Astaro.
>
> Well it seems that permissions was a big part of it.
>
>> > Of course I don't know what the -X option does. My debian friend gave
>> > me that command structure...
>> >
>>
>> man ssh-keygen does even list -X as an option. Maybe it's particular to
>> that Debian distribution?
>
>
> I noticed that while digging into all of this. I will ask him when I
> get home, and also do some testing without it!
>
> Actually, considering how long ago we first worked this out, it might
> be an SSH1 vestige that still works.
>
>
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I would recommend....AND it is recommended to create RSA keys instead of
DSA keys for ssh key-pairs
