On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Dolf Andringa wrote: > I'm using public key authentication to access some servers through ssh. > I put my private key on a usb memory stick cause I need to access the > servers from different locations (when on holiday, from my home, from my > office, etc). I've password protected the private key with a very long > passphrase which is virtually unguessable. To be able to access the > private key from multiple OS'es, the fs of the memorystick is fat16. > Fat16 does not support any rights on files, so mounted on linux, all > files have 0755 permissions.
It is possible to mount your drive with 0600: man mount search for fat and read about uid, gid, umask, dmask, and fmask Btw, why don't you simply copy your key to each of your workstation and change permissions? -- Regards, ASK
