[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] ssh login

[From: Danny Milosavljevic]

hi,

Am Freitag, den 20.01.2006, 22:41 +0100 schrieb Diego Fdez. Durán:
> If you don't want to change the "user" password you can do the following
> steps as they are described in http://maemo.org/maemowiki/InstallSsh :
> 
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> To create ssh keys, on the host you want to connect to your 770, 
> 
> $ ssh-keygen -t rsa 
> Generating public/private rsa key pair.
> Enter file in which to save the key (/home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa):
> Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): **************
> Enter same passphrase again: *************
> Your identification has been saved in /home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa
> Your public key has been saved in /home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
> The key fingerprint is:
> d0:b9:30:13:f2:81:b5:09:1d:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx xxx at host
> $
> 
> now copy the /home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa.pub over to nokia 770, and put it in
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Make sure it is only readably by user: 
> 
> $ chmod 400 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
> $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
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Nice idea :)

Be sure to disable password authentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config or
otherwise someone else can login using the default user password,
whatever it is :)

cheers,
   Danny

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