From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180707270734v316923c2h710fe98af498d149@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:34:38 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] ssh host key In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180707270729l19362cf8pb30938e46019cf7b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14ec7b180707270729l19362cf8pb30938e46019cf7b@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 97b830cc-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 sorry, i wasn't clear. factotum won't pick up the file from secstore by itself because secstored isn't started by the time the hostowner's factotum starts, so you'll have to do it by yourself. this is a typical cpurc for a cpu server running ssh: auth/secstored auth/secstore -n -G factotum > /mnt/factotum/ctl with the host key in the factotum file, of course. andrey On 7/27/07, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > put it in the hostowner's secstore where factotum will pick it up > every time the machine boots. let me know if you need an example. > > On 7/27/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > the sshserve(1) (sic.) man page mentions how to generate a host > > key on-the-fly, but doesn't mention where to store the key. > > > > where is the recommend place to stash that key? > > > > - erik > > >