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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Konquer Remote Systems Without Passwords #36
Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
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HACK
Once again, type in the password for the user account on the remote system
and press Enter.
From this point forward, you should be able to enter your equivalent of the
location sftp://daggett@norbert in Konqueror, and you should be taken
immediately to your home directory on the server without having to enter a
password. Similarly, you should be able to enter the equivalent of the FISH
protocol, such as fish://daggett@norbert, which will take you to your home
directory on
norbert without asking for a password.
Dealing with Split Personalities
Suppose your username on the remote server is different from your user-
name on your local server. Or perhaps you are an administrator and want to
set yourself up with instant access to another user’s account.
The procedure to follow in both of these scenarios is almost identical
because the principle is the same, regardless of the username on the remote
server. As long as the user on the remote server has your public key stored in
the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file, you can log in to that account without sup-
plying a password.
The only differences in the procedure are that you must supply the different
username during parts of the procedure and—most important of all—you
must know the password for the account on the server with the username
that is different from your username on your workstation. ...
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