You need fat to use the uid/gid options. However, I just did some testing and it seems that ssh simply requires that it can read your ssh key file. So you can not worry about using fat and use ext2/3.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:48:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation > LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 > Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/28/2005 12:06:07 PM: > > > Here's the way I did that for my machines: > > > > 1) Leave the key drive a fat file system. > > I hoped not to have to do this :-( Why can't you use ext3? > > Do you need fat so you can use the uid/gid below (your "2") > > > 2) Use autofs to mount the drive when needed with the following fat > > mount options; > > uid=<your uid>,gid=<your gid>,umask=0177 > > you set the uid and gid to your ids on each machine. The mask > > makes the file perms 600, which ssh wants. > > > > 3) create a sym link in you .ssh directoy to the appropiate file in > > the automounted filesystem. > > > > I used mine this way for quite a while. I was eventually able to make > > all my uids the same. Then I switched to ext2 filesystem on the key > > drive. > > how do you do it with ext2? > > Thanks Joe > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- --------------------------------------------- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
