> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Trever Miller > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:21 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] SSH security ? > > You might want to consider turning off password > authentication and use certificates as the only > ssh auth method.
This may sound silly but could you go over the method of using certificates instead of username/password authentication? Or provide links to a good howto? This has been a topic that I have been interested in for some time and haven't quite had the chance to sit down and work it out. I would assume we are talking a whole other plane of complexity when you are dealing with certificates instead of passwords. How secure is this method? I too am one that does not leave the port to SSH open by default on my firewall. It is annoying sometimes that I cannot connect to my server that way but the risk seems high. Jarrod _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
