On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:05:23AM +0200, shadus wrote: > > Personally, I prefer passwords to keys, although with enough computer power > all passwords are breakable through brute force given enough time... with a > very long complex password using a variety of caps, symbols, numbers, et > all... it can be realistically infeasible though. > Of course, a password must be typed each time authentication is required. With a key, I can load it into my ssh-agent when I login and then I only type my passphrase once at the start of my session and all of my ssh/sftp/scp connections are authenticated from the ssh-agent. Trust me, when you spend a significant part of your day sshing to one machine after another, it is a *huge* time saver. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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