Public key authentication SSH on the DCS research cluster

Public key authentication for SSH on research.rutgers.edu and the Linux machines in the research cluster is now done with temporary key pairs for security reasons. The rest of Solaris machines in that cluster will follow suit shortly. Since enabling it completely under user control leaves us completely at the mercy of the security on the machines from which you are coming, we now generate short term key pairs you can download and use. The key pairs currently last 8 hours.

The URL for generating a temporary key pair is

    http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~robtuck/mkrussh/mkrussh-howto-cmd.html

Rob Tuck has written some documentation on usage at

    http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~robtuck/mkrussh/

If you're interested, there is a web page describing why we went to such a scheme.

This page last updated May 31, 2004.