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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat How to use rsa key for a different user? Post 302877141 by Corona688 on Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:27:57 AM
Old 11-28-2013
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Originally Posted by snailrider
Internet is full of examples of this how to generate they key-pair etc... but all examples assume that the account is the same on machine1 and machine2.
I use keys across different accounts all the time... The key can't tell. It's failing for some other reason.

Check out permissions on ~/.ssh/ and its files, as well as the home directory. ssh doesn't like it if your home directory is world-readable or writable.
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sftp-server(1M) 					  System Administration Commands					   sftp-server(1M)

NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server DESCRIPTION
sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer. sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings. To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file. There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/usr/lib/sftp-server ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWsshdu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5) To view license terms, attribution, and copyright for OpenSSH, the default path is /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshdr/install/copyright. If the Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location. AUTHOR
Markus Friedl SunOS 5.10 30 Jul 2003 sftp-server(1M)
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