OT: ssh between linux and sco unix

[Tom Aldridge]

Fairlight replied to Tom Aldridge:
> With neither thought nor caution, Tom Aldridge blurted:
>    
>> There are so many examples of this process and they pretty much ALL say
>> that part, so I assumed he knew that. In fact, now that I just googled
>>      
> If he knew, he'd have it working already.  :)
>
>    
Mark, how does putting a smiley face at the end of a sentence alter the 
meaning of an unnecessary remark? :)
>> Long time... me too. In fact, just the other night I set up a no
>> password ssh rsync backup for my daughter's windows box (cygwin) to a
>> web hosting's backup server and authorized_keys2 worked while
>> authorized_keys didn't. I've used one or the other depending on which
>> one took. I guess it's an ssh version thing... something I pointed out
>> to him that could be an issue between his linux and sco box.
>>      
> I think it comes down to what the AuthorizedKeysFile directive in sshd_conf
> is configured to use.  There's nothing magical about the 2 suffix that I
> can tell, and there's only one such directive in the man page for
> sshd_config.
>
> My -guess- is that Fedora (I believe you use Fedora), in their infinite
> wisdom, broke with tradition and set the directive to a new location for
> some obscure reason.
>
> mark->
>

Mark, it is not a Fedora thing. Not at all. I am positive.

Tom