George McConnell enscribed:
> At 08:28 PM 1/19/99 , you said something like....
> :
> :>Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but why would you NOT want to
> :>password protect your host key? Isn't that something you WOULD
> :>want to passphrase protect?
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> when you execute 'make install', the hostkey and hostkey.pub are generated
> automatically with no passphrase. if you have to execute 'ssh-keygen' to
> create hostkeys for a machine, do not assign a passphrase.
Ok, you repeated what I said. I asked why you're not supposed to assign
a passphrase. Can you please answer that? I know that you're not supposed
to, but why?
Thanks,
-AC
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