Re: ssh and keys

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I'm not sure what you mean by parallel, but there is no relationship between your standard password and the key pair you generate.

password aging does not affect your keys.

John

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, m.roth2006@xxxxxxx wrote:

So, here's one for the assembled knowledge base here:
  if I use ssh-keygen to create a key pair, and put the public key on the remote box, so that I can ssh in without being prompted for a password, this leaves me confused about a couple of things:
  1) is the ssh key pair in parallel to the real password
       for the account? That is, if I create a keypair and
       use either no passphrase, or some password other
       than my actual password for the account, does ssh
       go *around* the standard authentication?
  2) since the remote box ages passwords, does PAM know
       that I'm using an ssh key pair, and age *them*,
       or do I merely have to change my real password in
       a timely manner, but don't have to regen a new
       ssh key pair?

Thanks in advance.

     mark

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