FAS and public Key auth
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu May 22 20:33:09 UTC 2008
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Till Maas wrote:
> On Thu May 22 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > Client tries to ssh to Server A
> >
> > Server A generates a random number, encrypts it with pub, sends it to the
> > client
> >
> > The client decrypts this number with private key and sends it back to A.
> >
> > Bam! Shell.
>
>
> The public key authentication does not work this way.
>
Side note about this for my own education. Can you fill in the blanks?
Because I know what is there is accurate, just not complete.
-Mike
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