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Subject: Re: [9fans] chown - ?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:27:44 -0400
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	And I got a pair of key files belonging to 'glenda.sys' in common
	directory /sys/lib/ssh/

	So, the question is how about another (real) users that might log on to
	the same terminal host ? How to make them use the same host keys ?

You don't need to be able to read
the secret key -- it just has to exist.
I'm not exactly sure why that is, but
I suspect it's an artifact of having the
server and client compile from the same
libraries.

The host secret key is only used when
running as a server; the protocol never
touches it when running as a client,
except to do RSA_RHOSTS authentication,
which we don't support.

You can generate keys for yourself
by using aux/ssh_genkey $home/lib/ssh
and that will create ssh.secret, ssh.public,
and ssh.public10 (suitable for sharing with
Unix systems).  See the ssh man page for more.

Russ