ssh passphrase

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 09:40:45PM -0700, augie wrote:
} could someone please go over the whole ssh and passphrase thing again?
} 
} here is what i have tried so far:
} 
} ssh-keygen on the remote host.
} copy contents of identity.pub from remote machine to authorized_keys on my 
} local machine.
} 
} then i try to log onto the remote machine, but it still asks me for my 
} password.

You got it backwards.  Run ssh-keygen on the local machine.  Copy
contents of identity.pub from local machine to authorized_keys on the
remote host.

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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com