passwordless ssh from laptop

[Tony Arnold]

Joel,

On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 10:19 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.f
> i> wrote:
> > google authenticator or ubikey is easy and cheap solution to
> > implement :)
> > 
> > Eero
> 
> Easy and cheap are what you use to lock the junk bike you ride to the
> store.
> 
> Multi-factor misunderstood is way over-rated.

In what way is it 'misunderstood' or 'over-rated'? The consensus in the
IT Security world is that passwords are now no longer sufficient as
they leak (phishing, key loggers, users sharing them etc) and so you
need something else.

So please justify your statement!

Regards,
Tony.
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