Re: Private Key file format?

[In a message on Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:23:47 MST,   Beau Sapach wrote:]
>Still ssh localhost will prompt for a password. When I run ssh -v -v -v

Yeah, I get this all the time, thanks to the combined key file. (when did known_hosts and known_hosts2 get combined?).

Frankly, I've never been happy with the whole key storage format. Why not have a directoryof keys (hashed?) and the authorized_keys file could say something like '<options> <type> <keyfile>', and thus only look at keys of the right keytype (plus, this makes it very easy to modify a key, unlike today). Seems like it would save some parsing at the expense of a file read. . .

Sean Received on Wed Jan 29 18:27:13 2003