> Do you have any references where it says this (faster, easier, and > more secure)?
ssh public key is more secure than ssh with passwords, because nothing that passes over the internet or lives on remote machines is sufficient to give someone access to your priviledges. Even if geda's git server is compromized, the public key therein isn't enough to gain access to other machines. If you do ssh with password, that password has to exist on the remote server, which makes it available if the machine is compromized. ssh-agent is secure because it does not give out the passwords, it merely encrypts (or decrypts) things on your behalf; "things" usually being your private key. But it does this in a way that you can't black-box it into giving up your password. X with ssh-agent is easiest; you type in your password once when you log in, and never after that. I even have a script to re-connect to a running ssh-agent, so that I can use it for cron jobs and the like. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
