morphing topic: RE: paypal scam - tracing link

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:44 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote:
> 
> --- A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 6) If you are using SSH you can completely disable SSH password
> > authentication and use keys (protected by password on your local
> > workstation) to log in. In this case it would be impossible to guess you
> > password by attempting to login into server via SSH. In this case the
> > server does not use the password for authentication and the key
> > protection password newer exists outside your workstation.
> 
> 
> I like this idea--minimum 128-bit "passwords".  Can you point to a 
> how-to link?

Simply generate a DSA or RSA key on your local machine:

	$ ssh-keygen [-t dsa]

By default, ssh-keygen creates a RSA keys.  Then tack the contents of
the ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub) file to the end of the
"~./ssh/authorized_keys" file on the destination machine.

You can then turn off password authentication on the target machine and
it'll only use the keys in the authorized_keys file.
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