Passing password in ssh
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jan 23 01:36:31 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:38 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 8:34 AM, Gijs <info at boer-software-en-webservices.nl>
> wrote:
> Or you can do it the "easy" way. Use public keys without a
> password on it.
> You won't have to type in any password, so you won't get the
> popup
> anymore, and it's relatively secure.
>
> I agree. Passwordless SSH keys are _very_ insecure in my opinion.
> Just pray that the account owning they keys is not compromised...
> because then
> the floodgates are opened.
> Of course this is a non-issue if your systems are in some private net
> no exposed
> to outside traffic.
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I'm confused by this comment.
If you use ssh keys, does it matter whose accounts is compromised? Once
the account is compromised, couldn't they just load a keylogger?
And then, ssh keys still have passwords unless the creator of the keys
decides to omit a password.
Am I missing something here?
Craig
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