Re: Error when trying to generate SSH key pair for a user -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Error when trying to generate SSH key pair for a user
From: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:40:23 -0500
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Interesting.

Is the user profile name longer than 8 characters, by chance?

On 9/13/2010 2:05 PM, Scott Schollenberger wrote:

I am getting this error when trying to generate an SSH key pair for a user profile.

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Couldn't get password entry for current user (4199): File name too long
ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data

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RE: Error when trying to generate SSH key pair for a user , Scott Schollenberger

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