Re: Giving up on Fedora 9

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Kent Borg wrote: 
>> I see periodic recommendations about passwords that say not to use 
>> passwords because a nice long ssh key is much more secure.  Am I silly 
>> to be as worried as I am by logins via key files? 
>> Currently I login with passwords that are secure*, and I don't type them 
>> on keyboards I don't trust (therefore I don't type personal passwords on 
>> my Windows machine at work).  Keyfiles, on the other hand, need to be 
>> stored in plain text on the authorized machine.  That gives me the 
>> willies.  Should it? 
> 
> Only if you're also using "passphrase-less" keys.  Supposing you use a 
> key that is as secure as your passwords are