On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 13:17 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 9/11/11 10:36 AM, lin wrote: > > hello James hello vitamin > > > > many thanks for the answers! > > > > > > > > jjmckenzie wrote: > >> On 9/11/11 6:37 AM, lin wrote: > >> > >>> hello dear Community, > >>> > >>> i want to get wine to run on OpenSuse 11.4-in order to use WinSCP > >>> (see http://winscp.net ) > >>> > >> The question is WHY do you want to use WinSCP on Linux/UNIX? > >> > >> There are native GUI applications that are a much better 'fit'. > >> > >> James > > > > > > perhaps i try to use some other clients - GUI-Apps > > http://alternativeto.net/software/winscp/?profile=linux&platform=linux > > > > well - the question is - can i import the keys (that i run on WinSCP) with ease! If So then i sure give the others a try.... > I'll have to look at this, but I suspect that the keys are just encoded > (bit-64 maybe) ASCII text. Copying them to the keyring may be possible > from WinSCP to whatever you want to use. > > The best thing to do is export the public key from the server and add it > using whatever program you choose's import key process. I do this with > PuTTY and it is not that hard. > Grabbing the public key is really easy on linux: from the command line, run the command: ssh user@host This gets you a mini-lecture about man-in-the middle attacks, shows the target hostname and IP number and asks whether you really want to make this connection. Answer 'yes' and the public key is copied into $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts followed by the normal prompt for a password. After that you just get the password prompt until/unless the OS on the remote host is reinstalled, which causes the connection to be refused because the public key no longer matches: the first thing sshd, the SSH server, does after a clean install is to generate the host's public key. The recovery is to edit $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts and remove all lines that start with that host name - there will be either one or two of them. Then repeat the command that failed and you'll get the mini-lecture and be asked whether you want connect as described above. Martin
