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Enabling certificate authentication in SSH

Enabling certificate authentication in SSH - Linux Tutorial

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Enabling certificate authentication in SSH

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- SSH is secure by default, but can you really trust the keys that it comes with? Stay tuned, and we'll show you how to make your own keys that you know you can trust. - [Narrator] You're watching ITProTV. (upbeat music) (air whooshes) - Welcome back. I'm your host Sophie here with Don from more LPIC-2. And this episode is all about enabling certificate authentication in SSH. So can you give us, like, the bird's eye view of what we'll talk about in this episode? - Sure. We'll start off just kind of talking a little bit about certificate authentication and why we want it. Then we'll go into the client-side certificates that we use for authenticating users. And we'll wrap up talking about the server-side certificates for authenticating the servers themselves, something that's commonly overlooked. - Now, why would I want to use certificate-based authentication when passwords seem to work just fine? - Well, you know, passwords do work fine, but they have certain vulnerabilities associated…

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