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From: "Régis Décamps" <regis@decamps.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh access in vhost account
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:34:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42c4f5b20610150834t63a04a66h53d222218423e195@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610142040.36021.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On 10/14/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:27, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 October 2006 19:45, Mick wrote:
> > > I have a vhost account with an ISP and he's given me ssh access - which
> > > is nice.  However, his /etc/sshd_config is set to allow passwd
> > > authentication rather than public key and there's no
> > > ~/.ssh/authorised_keys dir/file in my home.
> >
> > How does that matter?
> > You should be able to create that yourself.
>
> Hmm, I can't!  This is a FreeBSD server and it's rather locked down with
> respect to normal user access rights.
>
> > ssh doesn't care about vhost
> >
[...]
> So, all I
> need to ask them to do is uncomment #Match User and add my user name and
> options?  Like so:
> =================================
> Match User mick
>         PubkeyAuthentication yes
>         AuthorizedKeysFile     ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>         PasswordAuthentication no
> =================================
>
> Is that correct?


Correct, provided you have sufficient permissions to create this file
(or at modify it) on the server, which apparently is not the case yet


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-15 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-14 17:45 [gentoo-user] ssh access in vhost account Mick
2006-10-14 18:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
2006-10-14 19:40   ` Mick
2006-10-14 20:10     ` Harm Geerts
2006-10-15 15:34     ` Régis Décamps [this message]

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