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>From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Pag=E9?= <address@hidden> >Organization: UQAM >Keywords: 200303061342.h26Dg5B2003828 McIDAS ADDE XCD Hi Christian, Well, I am _finally_ over several very busy weeks of travel/work, so I am ready to tackle the McIDAS-XCD problem on your machine. re: access to your machine >You just need to follow these steps on the machine you will use to >connect (security on the campus requires this): >ssh-keygen -t rsa -f keyfile >When asked for a passphrase just type return (twice). >Then just send me the file keyfile.pub OK, here is the content of the keyfile.pub created by me on the machine zasu.unidata.ucar.edu: xxx >I will install then this (your) public key in both mcidas and ldm >accounts on our machine : you will then be able to login using ssh >without any password since your public key will be matched on both >sides. Sounds good. >I am at the office from 7h30am to 4pm. OK. I will jump on your machine as soon as I get confirmation from you that I should have access. Once again, I apologize for how long it has taken me to get to this. Tom