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On 7/17/22 11:48 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> It could, but that would open up an unsecured key to interception if |
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> an intermediate host is compromised. |
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What are you thinking? -- I've got a few ideas, but rather than |
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speculating, I'll just ask. |
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> See previous answer, the agent, as far as I know, will have the keys |
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> in memory and I haven't seen evidence that it won't provide the keys |
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> without authenticating the requestor. |
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Are you concerned about a rogue requestor on the host where the agent is |
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running or elsewhere? |
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> Yes, copy/paste has no issues with multi-page texts. But manually |
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> reading a long password and copying that over by typing on a keyboard |
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> when the font can make the difference between "1" (ONE), "l" (small |
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> letter L) and "|" (pipe- character) and similar characters make it |
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> annoying to say the least. |
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Agreed. |
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> Currently, when that comment pops up, the first thing I do is wait |
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> and wonder why it's asking for it. As all the systems are already |
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> added to the list. |
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Such a pop-up would be a very likely indication of a problem. |
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Grant. . . . |
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