morphing topic: RE: paypal scam - tracing link

[Bob Kinney]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:44 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote:
> > 
> > --- A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 6) If you are using SSH you can completely disable SSH password
> > > authentication and use keys (protected by password on your local
> > > workstation) to log in. In this case it would be impossible to guess you
> > > password by attempting to login into server via SSH. In this case the
> > > server does not use the password for authentication and the key
> > > protection password newer exists outside your workstation.
> > 
> > 
> > I like this idea--minimum 128-bit "passwords".  Can you point to a 
> > how-to link?
> 
> Simply generate a DSA or RSA key on your local machine:
> 
> 	$ ssh-keygen [-t dsa]
> 
> By default, ssh-keygen creates a RSA keys.  Then tack the contents of
> the ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub) file to the end of the
> "~./ssh/authorized_keys" file on the destination machine.
> 
> You can then turn off password authentication on the target machine and
> it'll only use the keys in the authorized_keys file.


So how would I "carry," and "input," my public key for remote login?




 
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