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For a while, I have been accessing my work machine through ssh/VNC so I decided to generate a random password for it with my password manager. This poses no issues since I was always accessing it through another machine where I could run keepass(x(c)).

Now I'm about to return to work on site and I was wondering how I could log onto my machine without having to type out the 35-character long (with special charaters) password. I tried investigating turning my Android phone into an USB keyboard and making it type out the password from keepass, but I couldn't find an easy way to do it without rooting the phone or some similar sorcery.

Any ideas? I still have ssh access to the machine, but I'm not sure how to remotely open a local session. The machine runs CentOS 7 with GDM as the login manager (I think?).

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  • Easiest way would be to only use a ssh key for remote login, and have a relativly easy but secure password for local access. You can then disable password access from remote. With this you don't have to have a 35 pass for the server, while still being on the secure side. I know, this is not really an answer to your question, but this question sounds like a typical X-Y problem: meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/348525
    – Malik
    May 2, 2022 at 11:56
  • I can do that? How do I set separate password for ssh and for local access?
    – Romário
    May 2, 2022 at 12:22
  • You cant have two different passwords. With this method you just skip the password alltogether when you login from remote. read up about "ssh key authentication"
    – Malik
    May 12, 2022 at 6:09
  • Oh, that's what you meant. I know about pubkey auth, but I'm not sure how I would safely carry around my keypair in a usb stick like I do my password
    – Romário
    May 12, 2022 at 12:08

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