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Re: [LUG] Security and SSH

 

On 21 Jan, 2011, at 11:44 am, Neil Winchurst wrote:

do I need to use SSL/TLS Manager to generate a private key?

Don't know it, I use the command line tool, ssh-keygen, which walks you through the process.

I must think about a pass phrase.

Long and memorable rather than highly-randomized. A good mix is two words, a multi-digit number and a short string of punctuation characters, arranged to taste.

And is it easy to change said pass phrase if I decide to?

Yes.

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Phil Hudson                      PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz                 @UWascalWabbit


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