On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:17:31AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When at a foreign PC I sometimes want to SSH to my work PC to check my > email. > > The rest of the world uses Windows so this inevitably means I'm stuck > running PuTTY to SSH to a Linux server. > > Trying to get PuTTY to use the RSA key on your USB stick is a real > nightmare that I believe requires Admin rights on the Windoze box > to add it to the registry. > > I've not had good luck with this approach and wondered how > others securely call home on a foreign Windoze box. > > Chris
Umm ... I use ssh password authentication. Lan "90% security is good enough for me" Barnes BTW, on a really "foreign PC" (e.g. the ones I used in the business support offices in Chinese hotels) are locked down so that you can't add to them or run a program from a floppy. I don't know about USB (only had a floppy then), but that's the way it was. I don't think it was government security -- I think the hotel IT staff was protecting their HW from being hosed by the clients. Anyway, it was relatively simple to google putty and then invoke it over the internet. I was never locked out. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
