[ale] Getting root ssh key to work (was Re: [ot] Xmpp, ejabberd question)

[James Sumners]

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:57, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:40 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM, David Tomaschik
>> <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
>>         You should have the public key in a file called
>>         authorized_keys on the
>>         server side.
>>
>> Yep! Easy tool is called ssh-copy-id <user>@<hostname>  will do the
>> RightThing (tm) on the remote end.
>>
> Does root's authorized_keys need to have my public key in order for me
> to do "ssh timtw at blueberry"  from root?
>
> I can "ssh blueberry" as root using the key I gen'ed but I can't "ssh
> timtw at blueberry" as root (get Permission denied (publickey)).  Same song
> when I tried to "ssh-copy-id timtw at blueberry" as root.
>
> It works when I'm timtw no problem, using my key.


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