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

[Peter]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

> I disable remote root access on all my machines. How about disallowing
> password auth completely and only allowing key based auth? The
> drawback of that is if I have to ssh into one of my machines from a
> machine which does not have my private key, I would have to upload my
> private key there first, which I do not like doing even though it is
> protected with a strong passphrase.

Get a disk on key and put putty and ssh statically compiled on it, along 
with your keys and minimal tools to use them.

Peter
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