Use of non-user readable (null password) private keys

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jason Stone wrote:

> Yes, users sometimes don't know what they're doing - but that's no excuse
> to deny some feature.  At the very least, allow a
> "-o I_REALLY_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING" flag.
>
> "UNIX wasn't designed to keep you from doing stupid things, because that
> would keep you from doing clever things."

OpenSSH doesn't deviate from this tradition. Since the file you want to
use is group readable, you can simply make a local copy.

-d

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