Security considerations for login with an SSH host key

2009-04-14 Thread Olivier Mehani
Hello all, I'm currently setting up a remote backup solution based on rdiff-backup. Basically, each computer to be backed up regularly connects to the centralized backup server, and sends the modifications. This is done in a crontab. On the backup server, there is one user per backed-up machine.

Re: Security considerations for login with an SSH host key

2009-04-14 Thread Lars Noodén
I'm currently setting up a remote backup solution based on rdiff-backup. Basically, each computer to be backed up regularly connects to the centralized backup server, and sends the modifications. This is done in a crontab. Are you also using sshd_config's ForceCommand and a specific custom

Re: Security considerations for login with an SSH host key

2009-04-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 04:59:28PM +1000, Olivier Mehani wrote: I'm wondering, however, if there were any security risks introduced by specifically using the host key instead of one generated specifically for that purpose and, if so, what they were. Personally I like using user keys instead.