Passing password in ssh

Aldo Foot lunixer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 22:49:21 UTC 2008


2008/1/23 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:

> Aldo Foot wrote:
> >
> > Controlling access to the media storing the keys and accounts is of my
> > greatest concern in particular if the system is located in some other
> city and
> > someone else admins the machine.
> >
> > Maybe I'm too paranoid.
> >
>  Now, if you can arrange things so that
> you do not need root access on the remote machine, then you can
> create a user specifically for the access, and limit the access. If
> you have to allow automated remote access, then there is no way to
> make it totally safe. But you can limit the damage that can be done.
>
> Mikkel
> --
>
>
>

Thanks for the great advice guys.
I'll play with this over the next few days.
I have much to learn.

~af
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