[clug] Anyone keep their SSH keys on a USB flash drive or in an encrypted filesystem?
steve jenkin
sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Sun Oct 6 22:44:40 MDT 2013
I was wondering if anyone had experience in securely storing the
contents of ~/.ssh:
- on a desktop/laptop machine
- on servers you administer
For a desktop, farnarkling with a USB drive mounted onto ~/.ssh might
work, but creates a problem of clear-text keys getting stolen.
I was looking for a way to deny automatic SSH access if I wasn't at the
keyboard...
For servers, especially a central trusted cluster admin-host, I was
wondering if creating a small, encrypted filesystem was easy or useful
(has not to be readable by super-user when mounted).
I've never used user-mounted encrypted filesystems, so no idea of how
hard they might be...
regards
steve jenkin
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