Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:22:54
Message-Id: 20100122212215.0c3a4ad8@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED] by walt
1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:22:50 -0800, walt wrote:
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3 > > I read this that walt is using SSH keys ( on a USB stick?) for local
4 > > login, which would be best done with PAM. SSH login with keys is
5 > > handled by SSH itself.
6 > >
7 > > Can you confirm walt?
8 >
9 > I'm using it to ssh between the machines on my local network, where I
10 > have the same ssh key on each machine. I don't have any need to login
11 > elsewhere by carrying the key on a USB stick -- I wish the machines at
12 > work would let me do that, but they don't.
13
14 In that case you don't need PAM. SSH handles key-based logins internally.
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 GOTO: (n.) an efficient and general way of controlling a program, much
21 despised by academics and others whose brains have been ruined by
22 overexposure to Pascal.

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