having some trouble using another user's RSA/DSA keys

Jim B jamesb-lists at alongtheway.com
Mon Nov 13 08:19:47 EST 2000


Has anyone looked into this?  Is this something that _should_ work and
is broken?  Would appreciate a follow-up.  Thanks.

P.S. If anyone missed the beginnings of the thread I'd be happy to
forward copies.


On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:46:50PM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:26:10AM -0600, Smith, Donald  wrote:
> > Do you use the from="hostname" clause in your keys?
> > I have seen this error between different versions of ssh where the public
> > key had the from clause.
> 
> Hi -- I'm not familiar with this, and do not see it in my public key.
> 
> Would anyone be able to confirm that my scheme _does_ work with
> OpenSSH-2.2.0p1 (i.e., make sure it's not a bug)?  It should be easy
> enough for someone to test.  FYI I just tried the same thing against an
> OpenSSH-1.2.3 server on another one of my boxen and achieved the same
> result, so it doesn't appear to be an interoperability problem with the
> commercial SSH (which is what was running on the first remote host I
> tried).

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Jim B





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