SSH with authentication key instead of password...

[stevenmolloy]

My goal is to further secure our Mac environment.

I'm curious if you have leveraged a similar method in your OS X environment or if you are familiar with this process in the link below.

I want to confirm if it will integrate with the JSS and OS X as an authentication method instead of passwords for SSH connections:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/530/SSH_with_authentication_key_instead_of_password

-S

[thoule]

I haven't tried it with Casper, but as I guess I would think it would work based on what I know about SSH. If you do test, please report back to this thread for the rest of us! If you lock the account, I'm not sure what would happen if the JSS tries to rotate the password. That may error out...

I would add that FAIK, SSH is used only by Casper Remote. If you are not using that tool (as we are not), then SSH is not needed; nor that management account.