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Comment by solyin

2 days ago

There's been a natural disaster and your home is now inaccessible. With global warming going the way it has, that's looking more and more likely each day. Fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, war, tsunami, etc.

If access to a system is critical, I'm going to have some way to access the system other than SSH (out-of-band access through a BMC, serial port, or VM host) that doesn't exclusively rely on the same means of authentication.

On systems that receive regular updates, SSH can fail for many reasons other than authentication problems, after all.