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

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On July 21, 2005 14:43, William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:30:48PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> > On July 21, 2005 07:05, Peter wrote:
> > > Get a disk on key and put putty and ssh statically compiled on
> > > it, along with your keys and minimal tools to use them.
> >
> > I already have that but it does not help when I have to ssh from
> > a remote host to another remote host. How would I plug in this
> > disk on key to a machine in say, Germany, when I am in Toronto so
> > that the machine in Germany could access my private RSA key on
> > the disk on key? Perhaps I could do some sort of remote mount to
> > avoid having to copy my private key onto the remote server.
>
> Use password.  Then, you only need to carry your brain.

I put up a new server on Tuesday night at an IP address that had not 
been used for some time. Within 15 minutes, the joe job attempts on 
ssh were coming in fast and furious trying to guess account names. 
Disabling password auth does not eliminate the problem but it ensures 
that an attacker would not get the opportunity to throw a dictionary 
at the prompt.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

+1 416-410-3326
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