Chris Green
2024-Oct-21 20:44 UTC
Security of ssh across a LAN, public key versus password
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 08:24:46PM +0000, Tim Rice via openssh-unix-dev wrote:> Hi Chris, > > > tl;dr In my experience, you get a lot of bang for your buck simply by denying > all password authentication, and only permitting keypair authentication. > If you're already doing this much, then you're on the right track. >What do you mean by "keypair authentication"? -- Chris Green
openssh at tr.id.au
2024-Oct-21 20:50 UTC
Security of ssh across a LAN, public key versus password
Hi Chris,> What do you mean by "keypair authentication"?That's the authentication you use when you have ssh-keygen provide you with a private key and a public key, and distribute the public key to all the different authorized_keys files. ~ Tim
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