[Kde-kiosk] options background

Marcel kraan marcel at kraan.net
Thu Oct 12 09:12:21 CEST 2006


An authorized key MUST have an passwd.
you can work passwordless if you type once your passwd like

ssh-agent bash
ssh-add
... yourpasswd

This is very handy and very save.




Éric Bischoff wrote:
> Le Mercredi 11 Octobre 2006 23:15, Chris a écrit :
>> linuxgirlie wrote:
>>> Ok, it worked, will have to go round and do it to each computer. At
>>> least I need to make a new image soon so all the ghosts will have the
>>> correction.
>> One thing you should look into for the future is SSH.  Generate a key
>> for your machine and install the public key in
>> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on all the client machines.  Then you can
>> easily script changes and not have to type in the root password hundreds
>> of times.
> 
> Linuxgirlie, take my advice, never do such things, it's dangerous ;-).
> 
> A key should never be left passwordless [I assume Chris suggests a 
> passwordless key here, because otherwise you just have to type the password 
> as many times as before].
> 
> The reason is that if an intruder steals the key, he can enter without 
> password.
> 
> Also, direct ssh root access should be allowed only with care.
> 
> 
> 

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