[wplug] ssh keygen w/ shared directory

[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, liang zi wrote:

> Yikes!!!  I think I might have stepping in it this time!  So here is
> the deal, I have set up a small cluster of P4 workstations with a
> single server.  The idea here is to use pbs for a queing system for
> some numerically intensive computing jobs.  On the server I have
> created the directory /shared/users/ where all the user home
> directories are.  I then exported these directories to the individual
> nodes of the cluster and used the NFS mount as the home directory on
> the cluster nodes.  The problem is that now I want to use ssh-keygen
> -t dsa, however, I am not sure what to do about the id_dsa, as it will
> most certainly be rewritten, and because I am useing a shared home
> directory, I am not sure what the solution is (other than re-making
> the use accounts on the nodes)!

I'm not sure I see what the problem is.  You specify that you think that
id_dsa will be overwritten, but I don't understand why you are
generating it multiple times.  Are you trying to make it so that all
your users can login to each machine?

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