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Re: linux [8.3.30]: ssh install

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 18 10:15:35 2000

Message-Id: <200004181415.KAA17037@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:13:50 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:15:31 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> When I added the ssh package, it generated a key for me.  I believe
> it does this in the cluster install too.

I've noticed this before.

> While this may be useful for layered machines, it is an actively bad
> idea for cluster machiens to even have an ssh key.

Why?

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