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SCP and SSH Without Entering a Password

7 pointsby bdupharmabout 9 years ago

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erronjasonabout 9 years ago
While I love, love, simple and accessible learning material such as this - I really wish they&#x27;d encourage use of using a password alongside ssh keys. Seemingly the only draw to ssh keys for the layman is understandably disuse of passwords, but at that point (and perhaps accompanied by ill-set file permissions) you basically have your password to a remote machine written in a text file.<p>If anyone is learning something new in this article, please listen to me when I say when running `ssh-keygen` - put in a password. A simple one, I don&#x27;t care. I promise you it&#x27;s worth it.