2010/6/26 Chusslove Illich <[email protected]>: >> [: Andreas Pakulat :] >> I know not exactly the right list, but does svn+ssh support usage of >> different ssh-keys? I'm working from 3 machines currently and all 3 of >> them have different private/public key-pairs... > > Maybe I didn't understand some policy matters, but... isn't the key supposed > to be linked to your persona, and not to the machines on which you are > working? > > For example, I too am committing from two machines regularly, and a third > occasionaly; on all of them I have copied my designated "VCS key", and set > in ~/.ssh/config to use that one when accessing the KDE repository server.
A lot of people dont like doing that. One (only moderately far-fetched) scenario due to which I prefer having my keys be different on each machine is this: suppose my laptop is stolen *and* broken into (due to physical access and un-encrypted home partition let's say). When I discover that, I have to not only pull those keys out from all the servers to which that private key gives access, (which I have to do in any case) but I now additionally have to regenerate new keys on all the other machines and submit them. If the server, instead, could accept multiple ssh keys and still be able to associate all of them with the user "sitaram", that is a lot more flexible. Regards, Sitaram _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
