Hacker activity?

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Oct 28 15:26:12 PDT 2004


Matt Juszczak wrote:

> I've considered moving to key based systems as well, but is it 
> possible to require both a key and a password?
>
> For instance, I find it fairly insecure to setup a single box (lets 
> say my home machine) with all my certs for all my servers.  Someone 
> penetrate's my home machine and I'm done....
>
> -Matt
>

When you generate your keys with ssh-keygen(1), that is an option.

Personally, I'm looking at ssh-agent, as Giorgios suggested earlier
in the thread ... but I've got so much to learn right now it's not even
remotely hilarious ...

KDK



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