[ILUG] sshd

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, r.harron at ntlworld.com wrote:

> Good comments already mentioned but I can't believe noone has mentioned key 
> based authentication for the 1 user who requires sshd access, that will 
> mitigate the problem of people stealing passwords :-)

And open the problem that the security of the key is 'outsourced' to 
remote boxes.

SSH keys are not a magic wand..

regards,
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