[17791] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux [8.3.30]: ssh install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 18 11:57:48 2000
Message-Id: <200004181557.LAA17824@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Apr 2000 11:21:54 EDT."
<u1haeirigdp.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:57:40 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Can you explain why? If a user does access_on, shouldn't ssh start
> working?
Well, it won't, because we set SSHD to "false" (as opposed to
"switched") by default in rc.conf. Which is probably fine, since the
cluster machine's ssh key can't be kept secret and thus the traffic
isn't actually kept secret.
But it still doesn't seem particularly harmful for cluster machines
just to have ssh keys.
