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From: Alex Veber <coronalvr@g.o>
To: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" <hhg@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:37:43
Message-Id: 200312021733.07443.coronalvr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org by "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson"
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4 On Tuesday 02 December 2003 14:30, Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote:
5 > On 02.12.2003 Alex Veber <coronalvr@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > Some folks in the meeting today suggesting disabling password auth on
7 > > > dev.gentoo.org and requiring ssh key authentication for all
8 > > > *.gentoo.org servers. Everyone present at the time supported the idea,
9 > > > so I'm posting it here for comment. Unless there is quite a bit of
10 > > > opposition from a majority of the development team, this feature will
11 > > > go into effect no later than the end of the week (Dec. 05) and possibly
12 > > > as soon as Wednesday (Dec. 03)
13 > >
14 > > I am not sure its a good Idea, I work on Gentoo from home and from school
15 > > uploading and downloading files all the time, the computers at school are
16 > > public and I can't put my key in there (If I forget to logout or
17 > > something).
18 >
19 > If you're going to trust a public school computer with your password in
20 > the first place, you might just as well put your key there too. However,
21 > should you trust a public school computer with your gentoo access at
22 > all?
23 >
24 > -- hhg
25
26 Can you please explain whats wrong with using my password?
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28 Alex Veber
29 Gentoo Linux Developer
30 Rosh Haa'in
31 Israel
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