-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2003 15:40 schrieb Buchan Milne: > Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2003 15:28 schrieb Buchan Milne: > >>Only if you put your user's public key in root's authorized_keys ... in > >>which case you were asking for trouble in any case. > > > > Jepp, only then. But the advantage is, you don't need to type in the root > > password. Instead you use your own ssh-key passphrase. > > IMHO, you're then using the wrong tool for the job ... sudo would be > better. > > (My ssh-key passphrase is longer than my root password ...) > > Buchan
On my local machine I don't use ssh very often. But on the remote ones nearly only ssh. An it is realy great, that you can tell sshd to forward your key to other hosts, if you want to copy some files from remotehost-a to remotehost-b. Martin - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft f�r Software & Engineering mbH - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 - ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+QSIhBG198cnayKQRAg6SAKClHFgUN2TM8muJA/xeY0yya02waQCfaScb lC4daWFV3RKaQCn2daOPIFI= =ZDQi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
