[Discuss] ssh keys question

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Thu Jun 16 20:21:28 EDT 2016


On 06/16/2016 06:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 1. You can assign passwords, but tell sshd to only allow access via 
> keys. This is a Good Idea. 

So for you--someone running your own machine--you use keys to login but 
still use a password on sudo? (This is common? Seems part of going to 
keys is to get rid of passwords.)

But if you do not require a password on sudo it means that any program 
you run runs with root privileges if it just bothers to ask for it. 
Kinda the opposite of dropping privileges.

-kb




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