[Trinux-talk] Eureka! - Trinux Remote Control

[Richard T. <ri...@th...>]

Okay all,

I solved my issues and I am now able to remote control my Trinux box =
from my Win98 workstation. Thanks to Matthew and Tim for your =
assistance. Want to know how I did it? Well, I finally read the MAN =
pages for SSH ans SSHD. The secret lies in file permissions. The big key =
was the line in the SSH MAN page that stated, "...ssh ignores a private =
key file if it is accessible by others." So I checked the permissions of =
the AUTHORIZED_KEYS file as well. I figure my problem might be Windows =
related. I was generating the keys on a Windows box and saving them to =
the Trinux boot floppy. Unfortunately, the default permissions for these =
files was grant all (-rwxrwxrwx). So, after I changed the permissions on =
the AUTHORIZED_KEYS and IDENTITY files to -rw-------, I was able to =
login to localhost. Next I tried the Windows client, Tera Term. At first =
I was unsuccessful. Once I put 'root' in the 'User name:' field along =
with entering the appropriate passphrase, voila. Now I'll have to try =
using the SSH2 protocol. Wish me luck and thanks again for your help.

Rich