[ale] SSH and passwords

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 22:59 -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> 
>>I do this:
>>ssh-keygen -t dsa
>>scp ~/id_dsa.pub remoteHost:tmp.pub
>>ssh remoteHost 'cat tmp.pub >>.ssh/authorized_keys'
> 
> 
> I do near identical steps and they work fine for me.  The only thing I
> would add would be to use "ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t dsa" so that you have a
> larger key size.

I suspect that you really should be using rsa if you want the most 
secure keys.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey