Archive for 'Secure Shell'

Locating the SSH key type and key size from a public key file

One of my friends sent me an e-mail earlier this week inquiring about SSH keys. Specifically, he wanted to know how he could determine the type of key and the key-size in a public key file. All openssh implementations ship with the ssh-keygen utility, which has a “-l” option that can be used to print [...]

Using the ssh config file to set specify remote usernames

I periodically need to access remote systems using different userids (I didn’t have control over the account creation process, and unfortunately LDAP isn’t in use :( ). While I could use the username@host syntax to specify a userid, I find it easier to list the userids in the .ssh/config configuration file. Here is a sample [...]