Comments on: Mac OSX Remote Login Access Screencast Part 5

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:35:00 +0000

I don’t believe there is a system wide key. You would simply have to issue duplicates of the key to each user. For server to server automated processes folks tend to generate a key with no passphrase as that avoids interaction needing a password. The risk is if someone gets the keyfile they can log in so you have to lock it down and monitor access logs etc tightly.

By: Mchristofas

Mchristofas — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:09:00 +0000

Great tutorial George! I have a related question. Is there a way to create a system wide key? I have a server at work that needs to be logged into as a certain user. My plan was to setup a jump server with key authentication. It will be much easier to maintain a system key than individual keys.

By: georgestarcher

georgestarcher — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:56:00 +0000

I replied to you over on my blog. But do a chmod 600 on your id_rsa file.

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