Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New public server up and ready for more GnuMedding...

[J Busser]

At 9:26 PM +0100 12/23/04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> *Ian* would have to generate a key pair and send you the
> public part so *you* can put it in *his* homedir on *your*
> machine.

Some months ago I generated a key pair and uploaded the public part 
to Savannah but had not as yet needed to use it. In the time that has 
since passed, I cannot even remember what I used for the password. 
Will I need to "know" that password, or is it needed only temporarily 
to generate the key pair?

If in future I get to the point of being comfortable modifying 
anything appropriately within the TWiki directory and so try to 
connect via SSH, how does my private key get offered to Carlos's 
server - does this happen automatically so long as my private key 
file id_dsa continues to be kept in my "user' ("jb") home directory? 
--- and if I should move the private key, do I get prompted to 
provide the path/full file specification?

Also, should I generate a *different* key pair from what I used on 
Savannah, in which case how do I avoid the problem of duplicate names 
--- or it is permissible to name it something other than id_dsa, for 
example foo_dsa and foo_dsa.pub, i.e. the only requirement is that 
the name parts preceding the ".pub" exactly match?