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

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> 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).
> 

You can set up the keys to require a password.  That way, even if
someone else has the key, they can't use it, without the password.


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