Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine?

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On 2018-06-04 04:25, jc091966@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 1:10:09 PM UTC-5, JimR wrote:
>> I'm trying to better understand ssh.
>>
>> User foo on machine bar generates a keypair, and provides the public key 
>> to remote user dokes on machine shme .   foo connects to dokes account 
>> at shme, and everything is happy.
>>
>> Then user foo also has an account on machine baz.  He takes the private 
>> key he generated on machine bar, and copies it to machine baz.  Can he 
>> connect to dokes on shme?  My limited testing suggests that it works. 
>> Is that a universal truth?
>>
>> Next, foo passes his private key to unrelated user thud on machine 
>> grunt.  thud installs the private key owned by foo.  Can thud now 
>> connect to user dokes on machine shme?
>>
>> Next, replace the above ssh keys with PGP keys.  Do the same answers apply?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JimR
> 
> I just read your post. How about some appropriate names so we all don't have to keep track of whether "shit" refers to a machine or user.
> Hopefully someone else responded to this crap, coz I'm ticked off with the extra work deciphering your questions

Who cares?

You are replying to a post from 2015. There is no point on asking or
saying anything now.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? JimR <NotReally@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-21 13:01 -0500
  Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-11-21 18:13 +0000
  Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-22 14:09 +0000
  Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? jc091966@gmail.com - 2018-06-03 19:25 -0700
    Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-06-04 08:40 +0000
    Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-06-04 11:35 +0200
      Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-06-04 12:24 +0200
        Re: Are ssh keys tied to a user or the originating machine? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2018-06-04 13:15 +0200

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