ssh public key frustration

[Net Llama!]

On 09/13/03 18:14, burns wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:38, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>I've setup & used ssh public keys many times before.  All of a sudden, i 
>>can't get it to work at all.  It works on the boxes where i've set it up in 
>>the past, but new ones just fail to work.
>>
> 
> 
> I've set up several boxes here at home over the past two weeks (RH8 +
> RH9) and had to update the SSL key on each of them. The trick seems to
> be that you also have to update the 'up2date' client software as well.
> If you follow the instructions on the Red Hat Network faithfully, it
> seems to work.
> 
> But I agree, it is an awful way that they have implemented this.
> Downloading this degree  of kludgey complexity onto your customers is
> not good business. For us it's OK - we can figure it out eventually. But
> what about those first time linux users that have just bought a boxed
> set and don't know a console command from a potato?

Are we talking about the same things here?  I'm talking about ssh public 
key authentication.  It sounds like you're talking about the public PGP key 
that RH uses to verify RPM releases.

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