On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Callum Lerwick wrote: >> 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. And contact my customers and what not to change it? Go past all the servers i have access to with that key? No thanks. >>> 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. Excellent dialog, strong arguments! Guess I'll stop feeding the trolls now. Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
