[ILUG] sshd

[Ewan Oughton]

SSH keys on their own are not the magic bullet, but surely passworded-keys 
are more secure than a password on it's own? Something you have, something 
you know?



Ewan




Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet


On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, paul at clubi.ie wrote:

> 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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