Logging of comments on keys

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Mon Feb 10 08:33:35 EST 2003


On 9 Feb 2003, Axel Dunkel wrote:

> On 9 Feb 2003 at 21:00, Tim McGarry wrote:
>
> > This may seem convenient, but it's open to abuse as anyone can put any
> > comment they like on the key they use
>
> Right, of course, but that's not a problem? Hm, so maybe you'd
> suggest it would be best to log the filename of the
> authorized_keys[2] file together with the linenumber and the comment
> to get it less missusable? Sounds reasonable.
>

It is only as useful until someone changes their comments field.  BTW,
This has been discussed before and has been turned down number of times.

- Ben




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