On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:17:36PM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I've been using ssh with a cron job to do backups for quite a while now. > But I'm realizing that the way I've been doing it (i.e., having the > cron job ssh in using a key without a passphrase) is rather insecure. So > I've been looking into ways to make the setup more secure by integrating > a passphrase into the mix. Another point -- for backup operations maybe you should create a new key pair and use that only for that operation (by using "command=" in your authrized_keys file). -- Bill Moseley moseley@xxxxxxxx
