On 30 Dec 2006, at 20:16, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I admit I always give an empty pass-phrase to ssh-keygen .
>> Is that a serious mistake?
>> /me tries to avoid the temptation to comment on the earlier advice in
> this thread that ssh key auth is better than password authentication
It is, for many values of better. It happens not to be better for ONE
case which concerns you muchly. But we're not going there, are we?
Niall
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