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From: "Roger Vicker, CCP" <rvicker@vicker.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: CYGWIN - As admin setup other users SSH for them?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 03:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ln8h0b$ev4$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53977A60.9060107@etr-usa.com>


On 6/10/2014 4:36 PM, Warren Young arranged the binary bits such that:
> On 6/10/2014 14:56, Roger Vicker, CCP wrote:
>> These particular users are barely computer literate so I would be
>> copying the private keys directly to their Android devices
>
> In that case, why not just replicate the effect of "ssh-copy-id" from
> each Android device before it leaves your hands?
>
1) The point of using keys is to eliminate password login (there are
other layers involved elsewhere).
2) Even if I "temporarily" enabled password login I would need the
user's password to this network.
3) The usual "after necessary sharing a password" changing of it upsets
the user as the periodic change is always "too frequent".


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-05  2:40 Roger Vicker, CCP
2014-06-05  7:46 ` Warren Young
2014-06-10 20:56   ` Roger Vicker, CCP
2014-06-10 21:36     ` Warren Young
2014-06-11  3:05       ` Roger Vicker, CCP [this message]
2014-06-11 10:01         ` Warren Young

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