SSH Security and keys

colabus · 10-08-2004, 09:53 AM

Howdy,
Just was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'd like to allow some people to SSH into my machine but obviously not just anyone. I remember some time ago my friend had it setup so I could use putty and ssh into his box, however I needed a special key file else it wouldn't work.

I tried messing with it a sec ago. I downloaded putty-tools to build a putty keyfile but I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Has anyone ever done this before? If so please could you help me?

christhom · 10-08-2004, 10:21 AM

this is what user accounts are for! just make them each an account and give them a password....

are they sshing from windows or *nix machines? if they're coming from a 'nix environment, then ssh keys are pretty easy. dunno know much about putty and windows side of things though.

Tino27 · 10-08-2004, 01:15 PM

Here is a good link that I used when I was setting up and securing OpenSSH on my servers.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6909