Question about "rexec"

Fri May 23 00:24:00 GMT 2003

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>>> Opps I made a typo in those instructions...
>>>> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
>>> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
> Generating public/private rsa key pair.
> Enter file in which to save the key (/us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa):
>> Hmmm... Guess I'll just default it...
>> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
> Enter same passphrase again:
> open 033円[6~ failed: No such file or directory.
> Saving the key failed: .
>> Well that didn't work!
>> Hmmm....
>> $ touch ~/.ssh/id_rsa
> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa
> Generating public/private rsa key pair.
> Enter file in which to save the key (/us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa):
> /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa already exists.
> Overwrite (y/n)? y
> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
> Enter same passphrase again:
> Your identification has been saved in /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa.
> Your public key has been saved in /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
>> That appeared to work. Strange...
>>> Generating public/private rsa key pair.
>> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): <press return>
>> Enter same passphrase again: <press return>
>> ...
>> $ ssh remotehost.com mkdir .ssh 2>>/dev/null
>>> Testing this with an ssh $(hostname) id so I don't think I need to
> mkdir. Did this command anyway...
>>> $ ssh remotehost.com tee -a .ssh/authorizedkeys < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
>> 2>>/dev/null
>>> OK...
>>> $ chmod go-rwX ~/. ~/.ssh
>>> OK...
>>> $ ssh remotehost.com chmod go-rwX . .ssh
>>> OK...
>> Now for the test:
>> ssh $(hostname) id
> adefaria@adefaria's password:
>> Darn! Still need to enter my password!

There is still a typo in the above instructions. "authorizedkeys" should
read "authorized_keys".
Max.
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