[Gnumed-devel] Re: New public server up and ready for more GnuMedding...

[J Busser]

At 3:30 PM +0100 12/24/04, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Some months ago I generated a key pair and uploaded the public part 
> > to Savannah but had not as yet needed to use it. In the time that 
> > has since passed, I cannot even remember what I used for the 
> > password. Will I need to "know" that password,
> Not really, except you want to log in into the server that stores the key. ;-)

Apologies for having to learn. Presumably Carlos may need to create a 
user (or not user, just shell?) account jbusser and, as part of that 
"account" creation, must he assign a password, either a "default" 
one, or one I have requested in advance?

One such a password exists, what advantage(s) is/are there to using a 
key pair? Does it simply shorten the command required for the ssh 
login (depending on the location of the private key), and/or save 
having to remember the password (for example if I can name a key 
carlos_server)? It does not per se add security does it, since if 
know the password I can regenerate the same private key?

> It would work to use only one key pair, but it is advised to use different
> ones if you belong to the paranoid part of mankind.

Horst's experience might suggest I should use a different key pair, 
even while I try to not "join* the paranoid part ; -)