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Re: Question: wip, git, ssh and permissions

To: tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Question: wip, git, ssh and permissions
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:27:33 +0200

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 02:23:28PM +0200, tim.korn%freenet.de@localhost wrote:
> Why is the ssh keypair necessary--for signing?  Why not everytime input
> the user/password pair like it can be done when using GitHub?

Because disabling password authentication removes one of the biggest
security holes for a public facing service.

Joerg

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