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Re: ktadd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Apr 4 21:10:23 2003

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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:02:05 -0500
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Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Logging into a keyless host is fine if you completely trust the
> installation of that host.  I'd certainly be reluctant to walk up to a
> random workstation and type my admin password into it.  I'd be quite
> willing to type my admin password into a workstattion I had freshly
> installed.

And of course you installed it from trusted media, and verified the
cryptographic signatures of all packages downloaded from the net....
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