[ale] ssh authorized_keys2, what am I missing?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 13:28 -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:18:08PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > 	(a) You're putting the public key in .ssh/authorized_keys2
> > 	(b) .ssh/authorized_keys2 hard linked with .ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> I can never remember when to use authorized_keys vs. authorized_keys2.
> I just checked the ssh man page, and it says:
> 
>     The file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys lists the public keys that are
>     permitted for logging in.

> There is no mention of authorized_keys2.  This is for openssh 3.9_p1.
> Maybe authorized_keys2 is no longer used, or specific to ssh.com?

	That's because it's an old deprecated feature that only applied to
certain versions of ssh.  Note step (b) above.  Make it a link (hard or
symbolic will work) between the two files and forget about it.

	Mike
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