From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 6:43: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcfw1d.bridge.com (bcfw1d.ext.bridge.com [167.76.159.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1B237B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:43:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bcfw1d.bridge.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eATEhtM25754 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:43:55 -0600 (CST) Received: from unknown(167.76.56.34) by bcfw1d.bridge.com via smap (V5.5) id xma025397; Wed, 29 Nov 00 08:43:14 -0600 Received: from mnmailhost (mnmailhost.bridge.com [167.76.155.14]) by mail1srv.bridge.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00332 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:42:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from gstation2 by mnmailhost (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id JAA14020; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:42:14 -0500 From: tayers@bridge.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Understanding SSH References: Reply-To: tayers@bridge.com Date: 29 Nov 2000 08:42:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: rsowders@usgs.gov's message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:12:14 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805999999999996 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "r" == rsowders writes: r> The pass phrase and key combination are both required for strong r> authentication. r> Keeping it simple and out of the minutiae, r> Basically the key verifies that you are coming from where you say you are r> coming r> and the pass phrase verifies that you are who you say you are. r> As Popeye would say "I'm from where I'm from and I yam what I yam". That is an excellent description for me (who feels like a bear of little brain sometimes ;-). Thanks! So am I correct in saying that there isn't a really secure way to do "ssh othermachine " without being prompted for the passphrase? Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message