logging RSA key identity

[NeoIce]

one of the machines I manage has RSA-keys set up to allow employees to log in as root. its set up to log the identity of the key instead of the hash (the username@host after the == at the very end)

I'm curious as to how to set that kind of thing up on my own machines. can generic syslog do that? I have machines running the Sun syslogd and the GNU syslogd.

thanks,
-rb

[Pimpntel]

Are you running openssh? If so what version?

[NeoIce]

Are you running openssh? If so what version?

SSH-2.0-Sun_SSH_1.2
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9etch2
and whatever comes with OpenBSD 4.3 (its not online right now)

[Pimpntel]

1. enter ~.ssh2 and touch authorized_keys
2. ssh-keygen " this will create your private and public key "
3 place all allowed keys in your authorized_keys file via cat >> "key.pub" authorized_keys

** As long as the remote machine has that public key, you will be able to auth to the box with out a password. ***

Make sure you generate your key as the user that is your source to avoid an issue with (the username@host after the == at the very end).
Try it out let me know how it goes, if it does not work send me your error.