Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:59:13 +1100 | Subject | Re: ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4)) | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:54:29PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > Setup your key with an empty passphrase should do the trick. > > Ug. no. That is way way insecure. > > Most modern distros have an ssh-agent running as a parent of all > X-spawned processed (including processes spawned by xterms). So, one > only needs to run > ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/identity > once, and input your password once. After that, no passwords are > needed.
This is fine for interactive use. But for a daily cron job, it's just as insecure as no passphrases at all. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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