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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: connecting with rsa key
From:       "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
Date:       2021-03-27 7:47:37
Message-ID: d7d32e44-2525-4f02-fd51-21c2ab977746 () suddenlinkmail ! com
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On 3/26/21 10:12 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
> all this works, mostly, but the public key is copied to the external server
> with name "root@localhost", witch, of course, do not cope well :-(.

the username in the key isn't part of the authentication. (I think you can
actually delete it) I'm not sure of it's true purpose other than providing
some name for differentiating what is in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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