On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:50:00PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:38:30PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:48:48PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:04:03PM -0600, Harry P wrote: > > > > Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:26:07AM -0600, Harry P wrote: > > > > >> Axel Freyn <axel-fr...@gmx.de> writes: > > > > >> > Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would > > > > >> > propose to > > > > > Point of Axel is use of SSH wastes CPU resource while gaining nothing. > > > > > His suggestion is more efficient. .. I think. > > > > Setting the issue of whether you have to type out a passwd aside: > > > > > > Hmmm... you must have set up passwordless SSH to root. I hope this sshd > > > is not accessible from Internet. You may be attacked easily. > > > > > > > I did it with localhost public key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts and my > > user pub key in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys . > > Sorry I have come in a bit late and the answer might have been given > previously. >
I gain freedom from continual typing of passwords. I have three debian computers on a small LAN. I have deposited authorized_keys and known_hosts files on all of them so that I can work on files on any of them using the CPU of any of them, all from my single desktop computer. Each time I log into my desktop I must give my password once and run ssh-add and give my ssh key password (once). After that I can move about the system without ever typing a password again until I quit and have to log in again. I can abandon a shell on a romote machine and them immediately reenter it by scrolling back and reexecuting a previously typed in ssh command. To do this, I use ssh and sshfs. No private keys that lack passwords are need, just some ingenuity. This is all being done on a small LAN protected from the internet wilderness by NAT. It's OK for me, IMHO. YMMV -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org