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Re: ssh setup
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:35:37AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> Are there any incompatiblities between ssh1 and ssh2, clients and servers? The NT clients
> are putty and TTermPro.
Yes. ssh1 and ssh2 are incompatible. SecureCRT and DataFellow's
F-Secure both support SSH2 in their latest versions, but both are
time-limited trials. The change in ssh2, as I know, is that packets
are signed, making it impossible for a man-in-the-middle insertion
of packets, but that was also fixed in ssh1 after CORE-SDI found
it. So, just go and download OpenSSH. It's more secure, and both
TeraTerm+SSH and Putty work great with it.
> I have generated the keys on both Linux and NT. How are these keys to be used to
> for encrypted tunnel?
Upon installing ssh, a private/public key pair is generated.
The private key is essential for encryption:
for decrypting, what was encrypted with the public key
(which is sent to the user each time he/she connects).
Your private/public key pair is yours personally.
You can append the public key to the .ssh/authorized_keys file
in your home directory (on Un*x) and then you could use the
matching private key to connect to your account without a password.
Read man ssh(1) for more details on authorized_keys.
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov a.k.a Toastie
[http://toast.demon.co.il]
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