how to get rid of the request of typing in password

[Lou Katz]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 07:13:33AM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> 
> > All one need do is ascertain your IP number <random hit-or-miss
> > attacks will do) and they are into your system with admin
> > privileges.  
> 
> How? There's no SSH by default, and most routers don't port forward
> port 22 either. I can't think what else there is by default that
> somehow means an empty password (assuming that's what we're talking
> about now) will let some guy on the other side of the world in.
> 
> Even if you do install SSH its default configuration is to disallow
> accounts without passwords from logging in.
> 
> If you really want to make it such that "All one need do is ascertain
> your IP number <random hit-or-miss attacks will do and they are into
> your system with admin privileges" then you need to try rather hard to
> get there.
> 

Two things I have done:
1. Set ssh to listen on port 443 (the https port).
2. Install my public key in the .ssh directory

Then, contacting that machine, login happens automagically, as the receiving
machine uses the public key saved there to authenticate. Works real fast,
and is also useful for managing script or cron-based access
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