On Saturday, Apr 25th 2009 at 21:55 -0000, quoth Bill Davidsen: =>Is there a benefit from not just using a login key (in authorized keys) to =>eliminate the need for passwords and also have the security of a single =>command which could be executed using the key? => =>I do my backups that way, just passing an argument of full, incr, or config to =>the remote machine and saving the stdout to a file. Security note: the remote =>machine is free to compress or encrypt the data, so the machine providing =>storage need not have access to the data. Bill, I would have to say that the answer is yes. Besides the fact that logging in via a passwordless system is more convenient, it's also more secure; you're username and password is never in the clear. -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors? Steven W. Orr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
