While this is probable, what @jsg actually means is that you can use the transformed string as the password instead of the initial sh_tty one. In this case you have to remember an easy password and yo

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For a start, I did not even assert what you "understood". What I said was "does not add to the security of SSH session establishment.". The password for SSH keys do

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Disabling password login has the benefit of discouraging brute force attempts that use up resources (RAM, CPU, bandwidth, log spam), etc.

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Also the password is just (symmetrically) encrypting the key and does not add to the security of SSH session establishment.

How can a password be more secure, if a password-protected SSH key is essentially a password and a key? 🤔

then ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 and enter the password, and it won't prompt you again during the session. I use a passworded SSH key for Ansible, but load it into the agent so I don't have to keep ent

In that case I'd definitely install from ISO rather than using an image. Even with generated passwords, I don't trust it (hard to tell if they're using the same "random" password for

@OBHost PLEASE DO NOT SET DEFAULT SSH PASSWORD TO "password"!

(Yes, I know that RSA512 is ridiculous but hey it's still much better than 'password123').

Sometimes people need remote root access (e.g. rsync or ansible) as well as logging into regular accounts. Nothing to stop you using the same key pair for both accounts, especially if you're using a h

I tried checking the usual suspects like bash_history and bashrc, but these files are fine. The delay happens both for root and my user. It hangs with password auth as well as with keys.

By creating new ones and replacing the old ones. But usually, except maybe for key pairs used for multiple machines (like the idlers), there is no need to reset the keys.

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