[admin] Okay to use authorized_keys?

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Peter Seibel wrote:

> So I was skimming the link from the FAQ about using ssh-agent to
> enable passwordless connections to common-lisp.net and it occured to
> me that I could just scp the authorized_keys file that has my public
> ssh keys in it to common-lisp.net and be good to go. Is there any
> reason not to do that? (The private keys is on my personal machines
> which are behind a NAT firewall.)

AFAIK that's exactly the right way to do it. (Provided the keys are
protected by passphrases!)

On similar topic, should there be a cautionary note against chained ssh
connections to MOTD?

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus