19 Aug
2001
19 Aug
'01
2:12 p.m.
"D" dsc@clara.net writes:
Anyone ever got this to work? Not sat down and tried yet but a guy I was talking to yesterday said its harder then it looks, surely you just need the host keys etc.. and your away.
I have eval $(ssh-agent) quite early in my .xsession file. This makes sure everything in my X session knows where to find the key manager. Then using ssh-add lets me add keys to it.
You generate ssh keys with ssh-keygen and have to copy the right one to the target machine's $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Other than that, it's fairly simple... ask questions if you want more than the manual pages say.
I even have a VPN using slip over ssh, for when I need to appear to be on an internal network somewhere.