Comments on: How to Fix ssh in Leopard

By: Sudo Nim

Sudo Nim — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:55:23 +0000

Actually Steve’s error was a simple typo.

It should be:
IdentityFile (has “t”)
not
IdentifyFile (has “f”)

(see 2009 Jan 21).
Hope this helps Steve or someone else.

Mark

By: Noam Birnbaum

Noam Birnbaum — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:05:43 +0000

Steve, it looks like you’re missing a space before the ~ character. Try that.

By: Steve Nickolson

Steve Nickolson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:57:03 +0000

I did the above and now SSH in terminal does not work. here is the error How do I undo what I did?

Users/stevenickolson/.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: IdentifyFile~/ssh/id_rsa

By: Noam Birnbaum

Noam Birnbaum — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:49:24 +0000

Hi PO,

I think the issue you’re referring to is slightly different. When you create a pubkey using ssh-keygen, you have the option of encrypting the key itself with a password. If you choose not to do so, then the SSH connection will work passwordlessly [sic] because all that is required is the unencrypted key file.

Of course, the key file itself will remain unencrypted, which means that if it’s attained by a third party, your security is compromised.

Regards,
noam

By: po

po — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:45:57 +0000

Hey there,

Did you find a way to use pubkey and run an ssh connection between a machine under Tiger and Leopard without seeing the prompt for the passphrase ? (I saw a post on the Apple mailing list)

Many thanks
PO