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Re: SSH Blocking



Incoming from Beretta:
> 
> One of the nice benefits is that if you are damn sure that your personal machine
> is spyware/virus free and won't end up in the hands of an evil doer, you can
> generate your keypair so that the private key has no password required to
> decrypt it. Thus you get a nice secure password-less login. If you are overly

Better would be, use a passphrase and ssh-add.  It'll ask for the
passphrase once.  From then on (for a certain amount of time), logins
will be passwordless and passphraseless.


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