[CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

Peter Kjellstrom cap at nsc.liu.se
Tue Apr 15 12:08:50 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 16:13:55 William L. Maltby wrote:
> > How sensitive is the data and how critical are the functions that that
> > could be disrupted? What is the scope of exposure to intrusion from
> > outside the organization (LAN, firewalls, in place, etc.).
>
> For example rsync functions.
> It won't work automatically anymore in cron if we use passphrase.

Then please do use a restricted key. More specifically, add the key to the 
authorized_keys with restrictions (see man pages)

/Peter
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