Raymond, Your email made me try to write down a step-by-step I have been meaning to make for a while. I'm sorry it could not have been more timely. If you can get anything out of it, that would be great: http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ Everyone else can point out the obvious errors I (seemingly) like to sprinkle my written works with. Have a good one, Troy >>> cbidler at innominatus.com 06/14/03 10:32AM >>> > This worked perfect for a single connection between my server and IPCop > box, but I need to make connections from this same server to a number of > other boxes. I have tried to generate keys with different names, but it is > not working. Is there a certain protocol to follow to make this work? Each server to which you want to connect in this way should have the "source" server's public key file copied into authorized_keys in the same way as you did with the first. You should not (or at least, should not have to) create a separate key pair for each "destination" server. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list