Re: x server remote

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:21:35 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Clark Freifeld wrote:

> > p.s. another nice thing about SSH is that you can put a public key in
> > a file on your pantheon account and keep the other key locally so that
> > SSH will let you connect securely to pantheon without entering your
> > passwd.
>
> I use ssh, but I didn't know you could do this. How do you set something
> like that up?

Append your identity.pub (or the identity.pub of the key pair you want to
trust) to the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on Pantheon.

It's generally considered bad practice to leave your 'identity' (the other
half of the pair) unprotected by a passphrase, though. In essence, it has
the same effect as storing an important password unencrypted on a disk.

Shawn