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Re: Writing passwords down

From George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Writing passwords down
Date 2024-12-20 05:40 +0100
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On Friday, 20-12-2024 at 14:22 Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote:
> > Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently (lots of
> > different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be
> > useless.
> 
> Generate a private key and add its public counterpart to 
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote machines. Locally running ssh-agent 
> allows to authenticate on remote machines without typing the pass phrase 
> for the private key for each connection. It is more secure than 
> passwords against brute force attacks.
> 
> (You may have more than one private key and may configure ssh to use 
> some key for specific set of servers.)
> 
> 

Another method for remote server management can be provided by Ansible and Ansible vault.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_privilege_escalation.html

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.html


George.

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a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 09:00 +0100
  Re: a passwordless operating system debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-15 14:50 +0100
    Re: a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 15:30 +0100
    Re: a passwordless operating system songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2024-12-17 05:00 +0100
      Re: a passwordless operating system John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-17 05:30 +0100
        Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-17 06:50 +0100
          Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2024-12-17 08:30 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-17 08:50 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 18:00 +0100
          Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 15:30 +0100
          Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 15:40 +0100
            Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-17 16:00 +0100
          Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 17:10 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 18:30 +0100
              Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-12-17 18:40 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-17 18:30 +0100
              Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 18:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2024-12-17 19:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down [was: a passwordless operating system] Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 21:10 +0100
          Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-17 18:50 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2024-12-17 20:20 +0100
              Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-17 20:50 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-18 06:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 11:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 18:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 19:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-12-18 19:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 20:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down pocket@homemail.com - 2024-12-18 21:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 19:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 20:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-19 06:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 20:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-18 23:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-19 02:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-12-19 02:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-19 10:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-19 12:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 04:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-20 05:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-20 05:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 06:10 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-20 10:50 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-21 01:40 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-21 04:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-20 10:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 10:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-18 10:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 10:30 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-18 18:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-18 19:00 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 19:20 +0100
                Re: Writing passwords down Frank Jezzer <etphonehomefrance@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 17:30 +0100
              Re: Writing passwords down Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 23:30 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-17 20:30 +0100
            Re: Writing passwords down debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-17 21:50 +0100
              Re: Writing passwords down Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-18 10:30 +0100
      Re: a passwordless operating system debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-17 12:10 +0100
  Re: a passwordless operating system Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 15:40 +0100
    Re: a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 08:50 +0100
      Re: a passwordless operating system Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: a passwordless operating system Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-12-16 09:00 +0100
          Re: a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 09:10 +0100
        Re: a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 09:10 +0100
          Re: a passwordless operating system Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 09:10 +0100
      Re: a passwordless operating system 🦓 <czyborra@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 09:20 +0100

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