Re: OpenSSH annoyance

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:36:12 -0400

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:39:14 +1300, Lawrence DčOliveiro wrote:

> In article <pan.2004.10.04.01.02.02.390820@yahoo.com>,
> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I suppose the right thing to do would be to but
>>the same public/private key pair on all of the machines.
>
> I thought about this, but it seems wrong somehow. There's probably some
> situation where giving two machines the same SSH host key turns out to
> be a bad idea. :)
>
>>You would get
>>this for free if you used a network mounted home directory (I don't, I
>>like having different home directories on each machine).
>
> The two machines in question are separate, and I don't like the idea of
> tying them together in this way with an NFS mount.

Every corporate network that I've ever seen uses NFS mounts for home
directories so having a common ~/.ssh directory must work. On my own
network, which has 6 Linux machines, I use local mounts for the home
directories. I use local mounts for two reasons, 1) the performance is
much better, 2) jobs don't interfere with each other. I use CVS to manage
all of my files so I can keep things in sync pretty easily without having
a shared home directory.

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