On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:13:01PM +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > This is what I am trying to say ,it is a dummy key ,Saying yes to that > does not mean that I am connecting to the correct server.I want to > create ony key and when i use putty to login into my linux server i > should be sure that I am logging into the correct server. Actually this isn't the case. An individual key is generated for each machine the first time sshd is started. > > I don't understand this. Do you mean you want to run X apps on your > > Windows machine? If so, you need an X server like Exceed. > I want to do X11 forwarding .Means the X11 is running on my Remote > linux server when i login into Linux server through Putty i want to > use X11 windows or mode rather than using console mode. The above comment is correct -- you'll need more than Putty to do this. You'll need an implementation of X running on your Windows systems. > > $ ssh-keygen -t rsa [snip] > The procedure told me is that for SSH version 1 or SSH version 2 .I > don't want to use SSH1 ,I only want to use ssh version 2. That'll work with version 2 as well. Although you could use "-t dsa" instead of "-t rsa". For a while, you used config files like ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2", but in current versions of SSH, protocol version 2 uses the normal un-numbered files. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 69 degrees Fahrenheit.
