[Wylug-help] Smoothwall with UPS

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Phil Driscoll wrote:

>  Regarding Plaintext (=3D unencrypted =3D "no-passphrase") Keys
>
>  DON'T USE THEM.
>  It is very common to see people giving out advice like this:  "Oh, autom=
atic
>  login with SSH is easy - just get rid of that pesky  passphrase! Type wh=
en
>  ssh-keygen prompts for a passphrase, and voil=E0!"
>
>  This will indeed work. However, it is equivalent to placing your account
>  password in a file in your home directory named PLEASE-STEAL-MY-PASSWORD=
.TXT,
>  doing chmod 600, and feeling very secure.

Yeah but you can do something in between.  If you use ssh-agent then it's n=
ot
that bad, since the file stored on disk has a password, but you can do
passwordless logins in the style of what you're after.

jh

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