Re: graceful ssh key management

At 12:15p -0400 on 17 May 2007: Mike Witkowski wrote:
> Kevin Hunter wrote:
> > ---------------------------Client  
> > computer----------------------------
> > |                      |                       
> > |                      |
> > |                      |                       
> > |                      |
> > Server 1             Server 2             Server 3             
> > Server 4
> >
> >    ^-------------------^---------------------^--------------------^
> >               No communication among the servers
> >
> > Short of using alias, is there a way to have multiple keys play nice
> > with each other and me at the same time?  I'm looking for my users  
> > to be
> > able to straight 'ssh server' from any shell window they've opened in
> > their window manager.
>
> When I have done this before, I have made a key pair for each client.
> Each client keeps its private key private.  It then sprinkles the  
> public
> key about to any server it wishes to go to.  One copy of one private
> key, many copies of public keys in the authorized keys files on the
> servers.

Hmm.  That would work for multiple clients, and is indeed what I do  
when in that scenario.  However the issue is that I have a *single*  
client and *multiple* servers.  In this particular case, I have  
multiple private ssh keys on a single client.

Thanks,

Kevin