[ILUG] sshd

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Thu Nov 23 16:43:46 GMT 2006


On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Niall O Broin wrote:

> It's not really a question of "magic bullets", more a question of 
> how you minimise your exposure.

SSH keys don't minimise your exposure, they /change/ it. Reducing 
(removing essentially) one vector, while opening up others. It seems 
like this would be obvious to people, yet I get the impression when 
people advocate ssh keys they've not considered the latter..

There are other ways...

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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