Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet

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Author: Ed
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To: Andy Smith
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet
On 14 March 2010 08:51, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> A lot of people have trouble setting up SSH keys and I would guess
> that very few customers have them before they get a VPS, so setting
> it up out of the box to require keys would be rather limiting. So
> that's (2) out.


With a small amount of clear documentation on the bitfolk support site
about generating your own key I couldn't see why it couldn't be made a
requirement for setting up a vps. admittedly it's been a very long
time since I first learnt about them but I can't imagine it being that
difficult a concept to grasp with step-by-step instructions to
follow!?

Ed