Talk:HOWTO SSH without a password

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"alias root="ssh -l root 127.0.0.1""

Why would anyone want to do this instead of using sudo?

[edit] Change of focus

I suggest the focus of this HOWTO should be shifted from passwordless SSH logins to using public key authentication with SSH in general. I feel passwordless logins are an insecure side-effect of mis-using this feature of SSH, and this article only scrapes the surface of the bigger picture that is public key cryptography with SSH.

Koster 05:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't that be a new page? This one is titled 'HOWTO SSH without a password'. I came to the talk page to ask why a page titled this way instead spent all its time talking about how to use passphrases. The warning at the top is enough, people can see that it is a bad idea. Some people still want the information, because it is a nessisary evil.

41.206.160.2 13:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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