ssh server configuration - Are public key and password exclusive?

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> I'm not certain it's easy to validate that a public and private key
>> >  correspond to each other without having the password; I leave that
>> >  puzzle for others to puzzle over.
> Giving you the private key is also bad security practice and proves
> nothing to you.  You can remove the passphrase later after all or
> change it.

Also, unless you have a secure method of transporting the private key, 
how do you keep someone else from getting it.

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