Re: becomeroot once again but with password

> To have a free access user make completely superfluous
to use a
> private-public key pair to ssh to root. Anybody can see
both the
> private and public, what is the need of
authentication?

One "plus" is that only you know the passphrase.
Better then nothing.

> If user or is without a true password and can be
accessed from ssh,
> anybody on the lan (on the lan because they need to
know your ip) can
> take the control of your tablet.

If I understand well, it goes for user in front of the
screen. When
that user tries to connect remotely, he needs ssh
authentification,
from password or key.

> a robber will see also all your sent and
> received mails.

Dude way would be to connect to port 995 via ssl. Some isp
thinks it
is not important. I see that port 585 is dedicated to
imap-ssl.

> In any case the better for these mobile things is
encrypted
> filesystems, on my other computers I use fuse+encfs, it
would be nice

Memory footprint and flash rub come to mind.

                                     Zoran


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