Bill Moseley wrote:
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).
Alexander and Bill,
Thanks much for responding. Good suggestions, both of you. I'll take
some time and think this all through a bit more and then make a decision
on what's the best approach.
Thanks!
DR
