[CoLoCo] ssh but kind of a mac question so please forgive

[Andrew]

I don't think the sudo command really works on a mac. I'm not sure, i could
be wrong, but I've had trouble with it in the past. Maybe you just need an
administrator account to use it though. If you do, i think it might work ok.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Or possibly try creating a directory for your "root" user...  I'm not sure
>> what that user account is called by default on a mac, probably just root.
>>
>> So on a mac that would be making your .ssh at /Users/root/.ssh
>>
>> Then throw all of your keys into there?
>>
>
> Thanks Kevin and David. That makes sense. The trick, however, is finding
> the root path. I am not seeing anything suggesting a root account or path to
> one. Nothing is listed under /Users except me, guest and shared and no
> hidden one either (at least none shows with ls -a). I will just have to
> figure out where to put the key. One thing I'd much rather do than copy my
> private key to my work computer is to tell it to look on a usb drive. Some
> posted a command for that so I'll give it a try. Should work with sudo too
> right? I think this is it...
>
> sudo ssh -i /path/to/usbdrive/privatekey -D 80 -p 5151 user at remotehost
>
> I will give this a try and see what happens.
>
> Thanks.
>
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