Security of ssh across a LAN, public key versus password

[thomas at koeller.dyndns.org]

> I have a small LAN at home with nine or ten systems on it running
> various varieties of Linux.  I 'do things' on the LAN either from my
> dekstop machine or from my laptop, both run Xubuntu 24.04 at the
> moment.

If you only ever log in from a limited set of hosts, you can further 
tighten security by enabling hostbased authentication in addition to 
publickey auth.