[lug] problems with ssh key authorization after

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed Aug 29 13:42:30 MDT 2001


I don't know that it is.  I just saw these three lines listed in the
/etc/ssh/ssh_config file and I know that ssh-keygen defaults to
.ssh/identity and ssh-keygen -t dsa defaults to .ssh/id_dsa.

I was wondering what the rsa listing was for.

Hugh

"dan radom"
> 
> it's not answered there.  i've always just used dsa keys with ssh2.  i wasn't aware rsa is an option.
> 
> * Hugh Brown (hugh at vecna.com) wrote:
> > the reason I ask is because openssh has these options for IdentityFile
> > 
> >    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
> >    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> >    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
> > 
> > 
> > I assumed that identity was tied to ssh1 and that id_dsa and id_rsa were
> > tied to ssh2.



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