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Create a physical, removable USB-based Keychain
Authored by: kevinv on May 27, '03 10:41:53AM

I keep my SSH private key on a USB disk too. Then I edited my .ssh_config to point to the the USB drive to get the key. That way I can turn off password log-ins for my servers (I have a long pass-phrase on the ssh key) and get more secure server.

the file with the ssh key in it has to be read only by just the user -- which you can't do with a DOS formatted drive so I had to format my card as either UFS or HFS+ (I forget which I used).



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