[NBLUG/talk] FOLLOW-UP: I'm getting ssh scanned! Should I be worried?

[troy]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:24:19PM -0700, Augie Schwer wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:28:36 -0700, Dave Sisley <dsisley at arczip.com>
> wrote:
> > Then I generated some ssh key pairs on my home machine and the
> > laptop I usually log in from (as well as on my sonic shell account -
> > see more below).  My only hesitation was that setting up ssh this
> > way would prevent me from logging in to my home box from some
> > machine when I hadn't put the public key from that remote machine
> > into the authorized_keys2 file of my home machine.
> 
> You don't have to create all these key pairs if you don't want to.
> One key pair would suffice.
> 
> Just create one key pair; keep the private key only on trusted
> machines and upload the private key to the servers you want to log on
> to.

Ooops.  Just to be clear, Augie means "upload the _public_ key to the
servers you want to log on to"

	I'll say it again: We will not have an all volunteer army!  I mean,
	uh, we will have an all volunteer army ?  Aww shucks... Dick, which
	is it?

-troy (you had to be there)