[PLUG] SSH/SCP: Passphrase lost

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Thu Sep 23 14:12:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:43:26PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> If you then go and read about security, and in particular SSH; you'll
> learn that having the .ssh directories be only readable/executable by you
> IS THE STANDARD CONFIGURATION AS OTHERWISE IT IS NOT SECURE!!!

I disagree.  OpenSSH is very secure if the ~/.ssh permissions are incorrect.
It refuses to run.

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