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Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.



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On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Unless they take the time to successfully factor the
public key,

Can you expand on that sentence?  I'm not sure what you meant by it.

Other than that I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion to use public-private key pairs, and would suggest (as others have pointed out) that you turn OFF the ability to log in with a password thru ssh - - e.g. make ssh authorize with keys only.

Just in case it wasn't clear - the user names do not have to match, even when using public keys.

Brian
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