8 Aug
2000
8 Aug
'00
2:20 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Michael van Elst wrote:
The protection only helps against network sniffers but not against someone getting access to the scripts.
ssh-agent might help... keep an encrypted private key on disk, but have the unencrypted version in ssh-agent's memory space. You'd have to manually restart the authentication agent if it dies or if the server reboots though.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
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