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Authored by: slacker on Sep 21, '07 10:55:51AM

One other thing, many new Unix/Linux distributions don't accept ssh keys without a passphrase as a default security setting. Don't recommend password-less keys to users. Otherwise, 5 minutes with your machine and my Knoppix bootalble CD and your arse is mine :-). Seriously, braindead things happen with filesystems and private keys do get compromised. Learn to use ssh-agent or SSH Keychain.



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no passphrase
Authored by: bendybendy on Sep 21, '07 11:03:11AM

it's not perfect, but a decent compromise is to keep the ~/.ssh in an encrypted sparseimage that I open and close when I need to do remote work.



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