Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: New public server up and ready for more GnuMedding...

[Karsten Hilbert]

> I can't say exactly because I'm on a computer without access to my
> Debian-Key, thus I'm currently unable to verify, but the trick is that
> there should be *no* password for the user on this machine, but just
> an ssh key which you have to send the administrator.  Thus people who
> have no access to your private key are unable to guess your password by
> brute force methods.
Setting a random password for the local account does improve
security but it also hampers the ability to use "sudo" should
that be needed. Jim likely won't need sudo. I will.

Karsten
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