ssh/scp used keyless....more secure

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:32, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > out for you, maybe you should switch to disabling password auth, 
> > disabling root ssh, and password based ssh keys.  But that is 
> > ridiculously overkill for more people.
> 
> Disabling password-based ssh keys? Does it mean you would be prompted 
> the linux password after you type the password for the private key?
> 
> How could I do that?

For ssh, you don't really disable the password and all. There is a way
to set up keys between specific hosts and users to not need to supply
the password. You exchange keys. It is easy to set up and similiar in
concept to the $HOME/.rhosts file, except you need to trade specific
keys. I know that SUSE have a howto for this. I have a modified copy in
some documentation if you do not find it. It uses the ssh-keygen
program.

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