SSH User Identities

SSH User Identities 2005-09-30
Anonymous (1 replies)

It's amazing how easy setting up SSH is, when you have a good document to follow! VERY well written.

Many thanks!

David...

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Re: SSH User Identities 2006-01-10
Anonymous

Thank you.

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SSH User Identities 2007-01-26
Anonymous

Hi found this page very useful and the table was a great help. I did not knew anything about SSH and this page saved a lot for me.

Cheers,

Ajay...

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pam_abl 2007-02-14
Rommidze

using ssh keys is a good way, but not always comfortable. For example in a case of web hosting. And there is no warranty to admit that all users will not use a dictionary passwords. There will be solution to use a pam-abl module. Here is instructions for ubuntu and mepis linux users: http://tech.tol...

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SSH User Identities 2007-02-17
Anonymous (1 replies)

When attempting a connection, who is actually asking for the private key passphrase? The server or the client and what exactly is getting send to the server?

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Re: SSH User Identities 2007-02-19
ChrisH

The passphrase is stored on the client. It's the client who asks for it.

For your second question:

"9.4.4 Public Key Authentication

The use of public key authentication assumes that the client host has not been compromised. It also assumes that the private key of the server host has not been...

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SSH User Identities 2007-10-04
Alberto

Thanks for the document, however I have a question regarding the process of granting access. It will ask you first for your pubkey, but if you fail to put the correct one, it falls back to plain password. So, this would be like not having any security at all. Now, is there anyway to specify in ss...

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SSH User Identities with virutal hosting 2007-11-09
Tim (1 replies)

How does it work in a virtual server setup? For example, my virtual unix server is called virtual1 but when I create the public key it has the name server1 in the public key file. It seems to be working in that I can move the public key to other servers and then logon without a password, but I am ...

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Re: SSH User Identities with virutal hosting 2008-01-18
Ajith Antony

Actually the "third" part of the public key is just a comment. Often by default the comment is set to identify the user and host the key was created on. Its to help you keep track of which key is which.

[key type] [the actual key] [comments]...

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