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Date:      25 Sep 1998 11:52:58 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan.
Message-ID:  <xzpaf3objt1.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brian Somers's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:35:12 %2B0100"
References:  <199809242335.AAA23344@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes:
> If you do stuff from libalias'd machines, you must make your host key 
> on all machines behind the alias'er the same as the alias'ers and add 
> whatever *.freebsd.org sees as being the connecting machine to your 
> .shosts file.

Don't use .shosts, use key authentication. Although your key includes
a host name, ssh doesn't actually care if it's the one you're calling
from or not, so you can generate a key on one machine and carry it
around to others. Very useful if your home directory is shared between
several machines.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no



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