[c-nsp] SSH public key authentication

[Tom Storey]

Thanks Phil. Sorted then I guess.

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, 12:15 Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 25/02/16 11:11, Tom Storey wrote:
> > Playing with public key authentication on a 1811, and it seems that
> > when trying to paste in my public key, it wont accept more than 254
> > characters.
> >
> > The public key is longer than 254 characters, however.
>
> Just enter the hash.
>
> >
> > How does one go about entering more than 254 characters? Im sure Im
> > missing something really simple here, like a control character
> > sequence to allow more text to be entered on a following line
> > perhaps....?
> >
> > Ive noticed that you can also use a hash instead of the full key text,
> > and this is working just fine. Are there any concerns using the hash
> > instead of full key text?
>
> It converts a key to a hash anyway IME, so no - you get the exact same
> experience.
>
> You can get the hash from a Unix box with:
>
> ssh-keygen  -l -f $KEY | awk '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/://g'
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