On 3/26/20 7:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-03-26 19:19, bruce wrote:
>> Hey.
>>
>> My apologies. I now I've asked this/solved this before. can't findwhere I 
>> placed the  soln.
>>
>> I have a remote VM. I've created a private/public ssh key for user 'bob' The 
>> public key is in the required location on the remote VM.
>>
>> On my normal local box,, logged in as user 'bob' I have the private key. I 
>> can login as user bob -
>>   ssh bob@remoteServer1
>> this works, no prob.
>>
>> My question
>>  If I'm on user "linda"s machine, logged in as linda, what do I need to do 
>> to be able to ssh into the remote server as user 'bob'??
>>
>> Do I place the private key of user 'bob' in the required ssh file within 
>> user linda's ssh dir?
> Absolutely not.
>
> Private mean "private".  You never take a user's private key and give it to 
> another user.
>  
>> Which implies that I then need to remove the private key once I leave if I 
>> don't want linda accessing the remote box later on..
>>
> If "linda" wants to "ssh bob@remoteServer1" the procedure is the same.
>
> The user "linda" runs "ssh-keygen" to generate her own key-pair.
>
> Then you can manually append linda's public-key to bob's 
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys or linda runs
> "ssh-copy-id bob@remoteServer1".  To do the ssh-copy-id she would need to 
> know the password
> of bob.
>
>
Yes much better advice :-)

Thank you.

Fred
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