From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T10:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling an interactive program from Ruby

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:26:20 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

>> > This is what I wantn to automate:
>> > 
>> > $ scp dcarrera@zeno:/data/tmp/filename some/directory/
>> > $ dcarrera@zeno's password:
>> 
>> Passwords are unsafe.. take a look at ssh-keys.
> 
> I'll take a look at it.
> Would you mind elaborating though?
> Why are passwords unsafe?  I always thought it was the best we got.

* network packets can get sniffed by evil people hooked up
  to your network (hackers). 

* somebody can be watching what you are typing. 
  Keystroke recorder, Video...

* Someone can gain access to your plaintext password file...ugh!



> I don't know what ssh-keys are, I'll google that.

google is good :-)

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Simon Strandgaard