On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > I am not saying not to use key based authentication, but it is not a > > cure all. > You are correct, there are no magic bullet solutions. Typically you > would still use a password/passphrase to use your private key. Of > course the same rules apply as to any password, use a good non-trivial > one that can not be guessed. And even more so than normal, since anyone with a copy of the key can attempt to brute-force the passphrase at their leisure. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
