Re: Public key SSH with Midnight Commander

* Atis <atis@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2007 Aug 17 10:55 -0500]:
On 8/17/07, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have my SSH set up to use only public key authentication between my
laptop and my remote host--no password fallback, no PAM. So, I
initiate a session using:

$ ssh -i .ssh/id_remote remote.host.ip.address

Then I am prompted for the password of the .ssh/id_remote file which
resides on the laptop.

This works well (X11 Forwarding even!), but when I've tried Midnight
Commander or Konqueror using the fish protocol, I get errors. In
experimenting, it appears to me that fish only uses password
authentication. How can I make this work with public key only as I'm
using?

I want to keep my SSH access as secure as possible by using only public
key authentication.

Use sshfs

That still doesn't work. I get:

read: Connection reset by peer

It doesn't seem to be able to let me specify a path to the
~/.ssh/id_remote file and then prompt for a password like the -i option
of ssh. It does work okay with a host that uses the default id_r|dsa
filename, but I use a different key for different hosts and must
specify the correct key to ssh. Does sshfs support this?

Ideas?

- Nate >>

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