[Swift-devel] ssh data provider

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 18:21 -0600, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Mike
> 
> On BGP, we could ssh to IO nodes even if there is no private key. So I 
> was assuming there should not be any passphrase either.
> I created one pair of keys, and tried with the private key, even though 
> the public key is not deployed on IO nodes, it still worked.

If you cannot directly log into the IO nodes from outside, then this is
no worse than the hostbased authentication that is in place.