ssh private keys on our systems

Jonathan Nalley jnalley at jnalley.com
Thu Sep 29 19:30:49 UTC 2011


i'm an Infra n00b, but definitely +1 out of good practice.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 15:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to put a new policy in place which goes something like this:
>>
>> If you upload your private keys (encrypted or not) we will remove them,
>> then we will remove your public keys from FAS and force you to login and
>> give a new one in FAS.
>>
>> We do the last step on the basis that your private key, being on a
>> networked, multi-user machine is now exposed to the world and
>> potentially compromised. So we can no longer trust it.
>>
>> thoughts?
>
> +1
>
>
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