Re: [tlug] Dealing with a second SSH key

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

Al Hoang wrote:

> I'm not a ssh master but here is how I understand you situation...
>
> You generated the first keypair on machine A.  So now you have A_priv
> and A_pub on machine A.  You wanted to login to machine B.  So you
> copied the contents of A_pub into the authorized_keys file on machine
> B and are able to login to machine B with generated ssh keypair.
>
> You now have a machine C that you want to rsync from machine A.  In
> this case it's quite easy.  You login to machine C and copy the
> contents of A_pub into $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys. Now you should be
> able to ssh (and rsync) into machine C from machine A using the
> keypair.
>
> If the situation is you want to rsync from machine B to machine C.
> Generate a new keypair on machine B then copy the contents of B_pub
> to machine C.

This certainly helps me to clarify what I am doing, but since the 
passwords that are encoded in the keypairs are different, I suspect that 
I would need a different key. (?) Anyhow I did not succeed, although I 
could also be doing something else wrong...

Thanks,

Chuck

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