On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:55:59PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > >> Its the only right way to do it. As a general rule, a private ssh key >> should NEVER be transferred off the machine it was generated on. > > Yeah, who needs backups of private keys anyways! We're talking about SSH keys here. There's no web of trust to lose. Lose your keys? Generate new ones. >> you have the same private key on more than one machine at a time, >> you're Doing It Wrong. > > That's kinda silly. I work on a desktop or on a laptop. When working on > my desktop, I really don't want to fire up my laptop just for the ssh > key. And adding two keys in all authorized_keys for this is kinda silly, > and does not add any security over the one copied key. You're wrong, and you're doing it wrong. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
