Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >When it asks you for a passphrase, hit twice - you have a null > >passphrase (which is fractionally less secure but that's probably OK.) > > Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine > containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is every > machine that the public key has been distributed too. Though if you want to prevent one

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: When it asks you for a passphrase, hit twice - you have a null passphrase (which is fractionally less secure but that's probably OK.) Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is eve

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:26:05PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > Thanks. I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of > your reply. It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will > after a little reading. > > With respect to the problem: I want to have files on my "

[Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce Corbin
Thanks. I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of your reply. It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will after a little reading. With respect to the problem: I want to have files on my "server" at home and have my laptop be the only "out of house" machine