[GTALUG] SSH key on a USB stick

[Christopher Browne]

On 30 March 2015 at 11:31, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:
> On 03/30/2015 11:24 AM, Giles Orr wrote:
>> As you can probably guess, this is
>> because the USB key is formatted as vfat
>
> Why not format the USB stick for something like ext2?
>
> Or perhaps symlink to the key?

I wouldn't expect symlinks to help; ssh goes to *some* efforts to get
to the underlying file.

I would be rather more inclined to format with ext2/ext3, which, while
not portable to
Windows, is pretty fine on Linux.  (And probably more trustworthy.
I'm never quite
sure what gets committed to disk on VFAT...)
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