Colin Wood writes:
> remarkably easy to use, and I like it a lot.  However, I would recommend
> against doing RSAAuthentication only on a MacBSD machine due to the time 
> factor:  it took me a full minute to log into puma.macbsd.com the other 
> night this way.  Also, generating a full key set can take quite a while 

 Tell the server and ssh-keygen to use smaller keys. I use 512 bits,
which is quite fast on a IIsi. The default is 1024, according to man
ssh-keygen.