Re: Hello World!

From: Dr. Poo <drpoo(at)houston.rr.com>
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 18:24:40 EST

Thanks a bundle guys for the quick response. I guess it was pretty easy, but still, your help is very much appreciated.

• Chris

p.s. sorry about the ambiguous subject..

From: Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu> To: "Dr. Poo" <drpoo@houston.rr.com>

    Poo> I've been using ssh for a few weeks now, and i've just come by the
    Poo> man pages and learned that i do not have to type my password in each
    Poo> time to log into my home directory... With that, i created a new key
    Poo> with ssh-keygen... and copied the id_rsa.pub file to
    Poo> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys/ and kept the id_rsa in it's default
    Poo> directory.

The id_rsa.pub contents need to be appended to the authorized_keys file -- authorized_keys should be a file, not a directory.

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Mark Leisher

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Received on Thu Nov 14 14:03:52 2002