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Re: ssh gives "Permission denied, please try again"

Subject: Re: ssh gives "Permission denied, please try again"
From: Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:27:04 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux

On 25 Jul 2008, Ian Rawlings stated:
> More to the point, passwords are only more convenient if you are
> logging in from locations on which you don't have the key,
> i.e. machines that aren't under your control, and that's hardly a good
> idea, no amount of random password gibberish will help there.  Logging

Yeah, but then you're dead. The machine can copy your private key just
as easily as it can keylog you...

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