How do I gracefully exit/shutdown a "remote" machine?

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:48:22PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > This issue is my pet peeve, partly because most people simply buys the
> > hype because it's in the news.  I do password access only (ie. disable
> > key encryption) for all machine access, and do file encryption if it's
> > sensitive.  Main reason is that computers get stolen.
...
> After all, I would surely hope you could put a reasonable amount of
> authentication information (e.g. - copy of ~/.ssh) on (oh, say) a USB
> key that you put in a safe spot.  If it's on a chain around your neck,
> well, if you make it out of the apartment fire that destroyed the
> Toronto-based PC, then you probably have a usable set of SSH keys
> around your neck.

Actually, the reason why this is my pet peeve is that people put their
keys on USB key, which is even easier to lose or get stolen.  This is
especially important if the USB key is bootable (like my thin-client).

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