SSH and GPG Keys

[Ed Fletcher]

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Stephen R Laniel wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:26:47AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
|
|>It's almost certainly not using your GPG keys. I, at least,
|>have never heard of such a thing. It's using whatever keys
|>you have in ~/.ssh/id* . If you don't have a ~/.ssh, I think
|>it falls back to your password ... yes, I just confirmed
|>that.
|
|
| Two related bits of advice:
|
| 1) Running ssh with the '-v' (verbose) option is quite handy
| for figuring out which method of authentication is being
| used when.
|
| 2) To generate a .ssh directory, you'll want to run the
| ssh-keygen(1) command.
|
| Let us know if you have any other questions.
|

Many thanks for the pointers.  That got me looking in the right
direction.  I've generated the keys and that made it work like it should.

Thanks again,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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