On 6/23/10 12:49 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Paul, > > I'm struggling with the same (Windows) issues Ken is so thank you very > much for having the patience to share your technique. > > Any comments you have on the following questions would be greatly > appreciated. > > 1. In reviewing your instructions, it appears that you have 3 different > client side locations for the Windows equivalent of home - it looks like > you have multiple .ssh folders on your client side? > > - c:\cygwin\home > - /home/Administrator/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > - c:\cygwin\Administrator\.ssh
I had at least one typo. There's only one cygwin home directory for each user. It is: c:\cygwin\home\<username> The /home/<username> form comes from the *nix program that expects the posix format (cygwin maps between the Windows directory name and the Unix directory name; the *nix program has no idea it is running on Windows) So when a *nix program says something like /home, you need to map it to c:\cygwin\home > 2. On the server side, why do you use .ssh/authorized_keys2 vs. > .ssh/authorized_keys (same file without the '2' prefix)? I'm guessing > this has something to do with SSH vs. SSH2? The instructions I've been > reading on the web use the 'authorized_keys' file name. I have no idea. I just followed instructions I found on the web several years ago. > 3. Don't you need to register your server's public key on your client > via something like this or is this an optional step? > > cat your-server_dsa.pub>> /home/Administrator/.ssh/known_hosts file SSH does that automatically (actually, it prompts you first). So yeah, you can go out of your way to do that if you want, or just let SSH do it for you. > 4. Any specific reason for choosing DSA vs. RSA to generate your key? See my answer to #2. :) I don't know the difference, and haven't been compelled to go find out. > THANK YOU :) No problem! Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
