Re: ssh clarification needed

On Sunday 04 January 2009 13:40:23 Ambrogio wrote:
On dom, 2009-01-04 at 11:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I feel unsafe about storing keys on a laptop that is going to travel, so
I'll need to read up on storing them on a usb stick. At least losing the
stick will not make the connection unsafe :-) - I'm unlikely to lose the
laptop and stick at the same time.

hmmmm
laptop without keys are unusefull to connect to your servers, but keys
without laptop are usefull.

Hmm - Is there no reasonably safe way of doing this? There seems to be some
risk with everything. I've not lost a usb stick yet, but one can never
guarantee that one won't.

Anne

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