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S Jun 15, 2020 at 0:08 history suggested Gryu CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 17, 2019 at 18:48 comment added Stato Machino Thanks for trying it from a MAC. In my Centos7 VM it produces no error and puts a private and public key in the user's ~/.ssh/ folder with the names root-key and root-key.pub, as the ssh-keygen -f examples expect.
Jun 17, 2019 at 6:13 comment added telcoM Testing on macOS 10.14.5 and on Debian 9, your stated command at step 5) produces a "too many arguments" error and an usage listing from ssh-keygen, and no new keys generated.
Jun 17, 2019 at 4:25 history edited Stato Machino CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 17, 2019 at 4:20 history edited Stato Machino CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 17, 2019 at 3:28 comment added Stato Machino @ctrl-alt-delor: I appreciate your point-- that there's no 'necessary' relationship between two users on one (or two) control (source) machines who want to SSH into a server(target) machine. However my edits may prove that there can be some unexpected relationships created by the normal SSH command process.
Jun 17, 2019 at 3:24 comment added Stato Machino @kenster: thanks for noticing that I left out some details and left over some others - detailing now.
Jun 15, 2019 at 22:38 comment added ctrl-alt-delor There is no relation between a user on one machine and another, except that ssh fills in the user name in userName@machineName, if one is not specified, using the current user-name.
Jun 15, 2019 at 22:14 comment added Kenster "the procedures fail when i try to copy a self-generated id_rsa.pub file..." Please edit your question to show exactly what command(s) you are running and exactly what happens, including any error messages. You don't need to be root on the mac to ssh into a remote host as root.
Jun 15, 2019 at 21:43 answer added Philip Couling timeline score: 4
Jun 15, 2019 at 21:31 history asked Stato Machino CC BY-SA 4.0