Re: Shutdown for dumb users

["Rod... Whitworth" <listener@witworx.com>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:59:36 +0200 (CEST), David Rio wrote:

>Putty solution is great but I think it has some problems. Your clients
>will have root access to your machine, maybe that is not a problem for
>you. In the other hand they will have a public key without password, that
>can't be good at all.
>
 Public keys don't need password. They are public.
They will have a private key with no passphrase is what I think you
meant.

Of course if the root logon is only permitted with the
forced-commands-only option set then the key is probably of little
value to somebody who does not know that fact.

Note: I did NOT say it was secure.


>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?