"Normal use" should be covered by reasonable defaults. Explicit parameters are for specific less-standard needs. It's pretty stupid to harbor a delusional belief that you can correctly determine and prevent others from doing stupid things. There are exceptions, but their rarity serves to strengthen the above. Regards, Uri > On Dec 29, 2019, at 11:54, Philipp Marek <philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> >> Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because >> that would also stop you from doing clever things. >> - Doug Gwyn, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald > > Please note that this mostly applies to the priviledged administrative > account - as long as a you're a normal user the other users should be > protected from your mistakes. (g+w etc. is already "extended rights" ;) > > > In engineering, one of the major points is to foresee potential human > mistakes - and to take precautions to prevent them. > > I see that SSH key length issue similar to operating big machinery - > you're protected as long as you use it normally; to tear a limb off > you need to become inventive. > > (Search the internet for images "two-hand control".) > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
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