On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote:
Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently (lots of different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be useless.
Generate a private key and add its public counterpart to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote machines. Locally running ssh-agent allows to authenticate on remote machines without typing the pass phrase for the private key for each connection. It is more secure than passwords against brute force attacks.
(You may have more than one private key and may configure ssh to use some key for specific set of servers.)
