Michael Stone wrote: 

> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:23:09AM -0800, Chris Adams wrote:
> >Or no passwords - if requiring public key authentication is feasible 
> >for a system you can disable password authentication entirely:
> 
> I generally consider that to be a horrible idea. Instead of centrally
> managed password policies you now have your security entrusted to the
> security of all of your user's ssh keys. IME most users aren't really
> careful about how they handle those.

Sure, maybe a user does not handle the key carefully but do you think
they are more careful with their password and don't write it down or
something like this?


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