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Nicholas Henke henken at seas.upenn.edu
Fri Feb 14 08:35:59 PST 2003


On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:07:12 -0600 (CST)
"Brian D. Ropers-Huilman" <bropers at lsu.edu> wrote:

> Jai,
> 
> You'll need to create a public/private key pair. Put the public key on
> all the nodes and leave the secret key on your administrative node.
> You'll also have to make sure you configure the SSH daemon on all the
> nodes to accept a public key authentication.
> 

Why is it that key pairs are used, when host based authentication will
work for any user, without doing more work each time a user is added?
Is there something inherently wrong with host based ?

Nic
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Nicholas Henke
Penguin Herder & Linux Cluster System Programmer
Liniac Project - Univ. of Pennsylvania



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