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Re:New startup sells coffee through SSH by fragmede on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:50PM (#40230605)
It's quite useful! I can give someone access to my server by grabbing their public key and creating an account for them, no need figure out how to send them the password to my server.
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Re:New startup sells coffee through SSH by ddalex on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:57AM (#40233442)
That's indeed how public keys are intended to work.
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Re:New startup sells coffee through SSH by fragmede on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:26AM (#40233921)
It's one of those obvious in hindsight things that gives me that "Internet was not a mistake" feels.
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