Topic: ssh public key and the admin user

[Gaz]

Hi All,

Well I finally got around to setting up my root account so that I could ssh into it with a public key + password  so that I can overcome my fear that someone is logging my keystrokes.

Now I would like to achieve the same for my admin account, I copied the .ssh dir from my /root account and chown'd the files to admin/admin but it wont work.

Is there anything special I have to do to be able to use a public key with the admin account?

Thanks,
Gaz

[Andy Parkinson]

just log in  as root and then su admin

[Gaz]

> just log in  as root and then su admin

Doh!  

I didn't know you could do that!

I was typing 'login admin', and it would lock up my shell window.

Thanks, this helps me a lot.