When connecting to a unix box, how does it know you have SSH setup on your desktop?
- by Blankman
When you use something like putty to connect to a linux box, and you setup your SSH keys etc.
When connecting, how does it tell the server that you want to connect using your SSH keys?
Is SSH running as a service on a particular port or does it simply pass your private-key and then the login service sees that and tries to connect using it?
Just looking for a fairly high level understanding (with maybe some detail if you want to...)