[Gllug] rssh with public key authentication?

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 8 Dec 2010, John Edwards wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:52:36AM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
><snip> 
>> Also, if you can, you can shut down sshd at the remote end and run an
>> sshd -d to watch your connection come in. This is a surefire way to
>> pick up on authentication problems but often not very feasible since
>> other people use the remote machine.
>You could run that debugging SSH daemon on a different port.

Ha, good point, stupid of me. I forget that because we have a
nightmarish mess of internal firewalling and I can't usually do it.

>> The usual problem I expect is this;
>> A is to ssh to B, but B doesn't know A's key fingerprint.
>I don't think that is needed.

It does if the authorised key is only permitted from A.

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