Hello all,

We have unix environment and we would like to use ssh public and private key to move between server using ssh. I do know how to test this and have it up and running on some sandbox...but my question is how would one secure the PRIVATE KEY....we are not using a passphrase...and i know looking at all the BEST PRACTICE the first thing said is have a passphrase....besides the passphrase how can we make sure/protect our keys (permissions are set to 600)...here is the setup...

server1 have my private key
server 2 has public key
server 3 has public key
server 4 has public key

we are going to use server1 as our hub to move/ssh to other server...so how would i secure/protect my private key on server1.... like i mentioned we do not want to use passphrase...any other things we can do on server1 to make sure my private key is secure?? Just wanted to get some thoughts...and please keep in mind i am not a system administrator...

Hi,

make sure to have an encrypted backup of private/public keypair; there are a lot of tools you may use (i.e. gpg, truecrypt, etc...).

see ya
fra