From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4))
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 20:24:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C65CBDE.A9B60BBD@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16ZhzF-0000ST-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> <3C65C4C5.C287A3@mandrakesoft.com> <20020210005913.GA1993@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:54:29PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >
> > > Setup your key with an empty passphrase should do the trick.
> >
> > Ug. no. That is way way insecure.
> >
> > Most modern distros have an ssh-agent running as a parent of all
> > X-spawned processed (including processes spawned by xterms). So, one
> > only needs to run
> > ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/identity
> > once, and input your password once. After that, no passwords are
> > needed.
>
> This is fine for interactive use. But for a daily cron job, it's
> just as insecure as no passphrases at all.
It is far easier to guess your private key with a blank passphrase.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-10 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-09 2:25 [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4 Patrick Mochel
2002-02-09 3:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 4:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-09 7:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 7:41 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-10 2:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-10 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-10 7:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-10 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-11 18:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 5:12 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 5:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-09 9:36 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-09 9:57 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-09 10:01 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-09 18:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-09 15:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-10 4:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-09 10:14 ` David Lang
2002-02-09 15:54 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 16:50 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-09 17:05 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 21:01 ` David Lang
2002-02-09 21:41 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 23:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 23:45 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-10 0:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 23:52 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-10 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-10 18:02 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-10 5:25 ` William Stearns
2002-02-11 17:30 ` Padraig Brady
2002-02-13 11:59 ` Padraig Brady
2002-02-09 9:27 ` pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4) Rob Landley
2002-02-09 10:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-09 18:12 ` Stelian Pop
2002-02-09 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-09 20:12 ` Stelian Pop
2002-02-09 20:26 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 20:51 ` Stelian Pop
2002-02-09 23:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-09 23:49 ` Larry McVoy
2002-02-09 20:57 ` Pau Aliagas
2002-02-09 21:07 ` David Lang
2002-02-09 21:13 ` Pau Aliagas
2002-02-09 21:45 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-10 0:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-10 0:36 ` Herbert Xu
2002-02-10 0:54 ` ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4)) Jeff Garzik
2002-02-10 0:59 ` Herbert Xu
2002-02-10 1:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-02-10 8:13 ` Herbert Xu
2002-02-13 17:13 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-02-14 0:22 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-14 6:57 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-02-14 11:00 ` Harald Arnesen
2002-02-10 0:59 ` Ben Pfaff
2002-02-10 1:14 ` David Lang
2002-02-10 1:22 ` ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbuscompile " Jeff Garzik
2002-02-10 2:46 ` pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4) Alan Cox
2002-02-11 11:51 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-11 18:42 ` John Alvord
2002-02-09 11:44 ` [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4 Peter Osterlund
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2002-02-14 13:50 ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4)) Jesse Pollard
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