Thanks Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2011 09:41, Jon Spriggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@sprig.gs">jon@sprig.gs</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>SSH keys are created by producing a pair of cryptographically equivelent numbers with a size of (usually) 1024 or 2048 bits (I think!) long. When performing a complex equation, the result of encrypting one with the other returns the same value. It is not linked to a hardware value.</p>
<p>You can share the same private key around all the machines you own and trust, and put the public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the accounts you are trusted to access. Typically, I create a new account with my username the same everywhere, but you may want to set it up differently.</p>
</blockquote><div>So Id need the private key on each machine in doing the accessing <b>from?</b> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Remember, network access (such as port forwarding the VNC port) does not require you to be in the same account as the user. If you need to act as the user, you can login with your account and type </p>
<p>sudo su - USERNAME </p></blockquote><div>Id need to create a user called "support" on one of my machines, to generate a private / public key pair for the "support" user? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>where username is the person you are supporting. The hyphen in the su command means "pretend I just logged in as them".</p>
<p>If you are supporting a lot of machines, I'd start looking at creating a ~/.ssh/config file, but from the sounds of things, that's a while off yet!</p><div class="im">
<p>All the best,<br>
-- <br>
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs</p>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Mar 2011 08:51, <<a href="mailto:bodsda@googlemail.com" target="_blank">bodsda@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I believe ssh keys are generated from hardware I'd's, things like mac address etc. <br>
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