[plug] Using SCP without entering a password interactively

[Christian]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:05:49PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
 
> Well, there is a passkey saved, the public key in
> remote:.ssh/authorized_keys (copied from local:.ssh/identity.pub), and
> the private key in local:.ssh/identity. The whole idea of this is to let
> you login without a password.  Of course, it's a good idea that you have
> administrative control over both machines, or trust the
> administrator(s), but not necessarily the network between.

If you're using public key authentication there is no security need to
have administrative control over the remote machine or trust the
machine/administrators.  That's half the point of using public key
authentication. 

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