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Re: linux [8.3.30]: ssh install

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Apr 18 11:21:59 2000

To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 18 Apr 2000 11:21:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:13:50 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1haeirigdp.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>

Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I just installed cj.  I did a layered install, because it has SCSI
> disks.  When I added the ssh package, it generated a key for me.  I
> believe it does this in the cluster install too.  While this may be
> useful for layered machines, it is an actively bad idea for cluster
> machiens to even have an ssh key.  

Can you explain why?  If a user does access_on, shouldn't ssh start
working? 

Thomas

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