question on using keys

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Mon Mar 9 10:27:13 EST 2009


Damien Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > -rw-------   1 john john     397 2009-03-07 15:04 authorized_keys2
> > 
> > Rename this to authorized_keys and it should work. authorized_keys2
> > is a very old filename that recent versions of OpenSSH do not use
> > anymore.
> 
> authorized_keys2 is still checked.

Oh thanks! I was pretty sure it had gone away because I found one of
these files on a system with an old OpenSSH and I renamed it as I
upgraded. I was just playing it safe then.


//Peter


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