On Friday 28 November 2008, G T Smith wrote:
Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
I rather assume the user wanted to disabled password authentication in favor of keybased authentication. If you read the thread in context, this is at least what the story suggests.
I have this setup on my server and would not be afraid of it's security.. or not more as with pw auth. Having keypair auth and no pass sounds pretty good practice to me.
Dominique
But how do you log into that box from where ever you happen to be if you do not have your private key at hand? Or did I miss something here? I'd take pw authentication over a key-based one any day unless I'd become a target of constant dictionary attacks that would affect performance. Otherwise, moving that private key from place A to B securely is too much of a trouble. With a good pw, no amount of guessing, however sophisticated or powerful, or by which ever entity, is going to work. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org