ssh?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jun 20 01:16:28 UTC 2008


Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM,  <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>> I'm trying to make my system a little more secure but still allow it to be
>> accessed remotely from the internet using ssh and I'm looking for some
>> guidance.  The systems in question are a Fedora 9 and a Fedora Core 6 system.
>>
>> The first thing I did was on my workstation (that I ssh from) is create a
>> public/private key pair and installed the public key in
>> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2, and disabled the password authentication in the
>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and everything so far works great.
> 
> I believe the file with the keys is '~/.ssh/authorized_keys', without the '2'.
> as specified in the sshd_config.
> AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys

I only use the ssh 2 protocol.  As such, I have/use authorized_keys2. 
The version without the "2" is for ssh 1 protocol, and its used should 
be deprecated as its not as secure as ssh 2.

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