Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:22:30 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: John Case <case@SDF.ORG>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comparing SSH key and passphrase auth vs. an SSH key *with* a passphrase ... Message-ID: <54123CC6.10207@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1409112200270.27915@faeroes.freeshell.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1409112200270.27915@faeroes.freeshell.org>
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On 2014-09-12 00:04, John Case wrote: > > Hi, > > I've always used SSH with simply a password. This has always worked > fine for me. > > Lately, I've been thinking that I might like to increase my security by > using *both* a UNIX password and an SSH key. That is, I can't log in > unless I have my password and my key. However, it doesn't look like SSH > supports this - either you do unix password OR you do SSH key, it > doesn't look like there is any way to do both. > > However, what I could do is only use an SSH key, but set a passphrase on > that key. The only difference here is that my safety is all bound up in > SSH, whereas before it was distributed between SSH and the OS. > > So I'm curious... > > What's the difference between using a UNIX password combined with an SSH > key (if that actually worked, which it doesn't) and using an SSH key > with a passphrase attached ? Is one of these better than the other ? > Are they the same ? > > What's the difference ? Check out the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/openssh.html
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