Re: ssh and root

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:

> I need ssh to access some cvs servers.  As the files are stored locally
> below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called
> ssh-keygen as root.  But now I have my doubts if this was The Right
> Thing to do regarding security.  I *do* trust the cvs servers in
> question and am not paranoid about security, but I do want a reasonable
> security level.  Comments welcome.

You may take a look at

http://www.linuxia.de/linux.en.html#CVS

further down there is a section about "CVS over ssh".

Ciao
        Racke

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