From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 19:12:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FB816A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rickjpreston@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D660F43D1F for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:12:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rickjpreston@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so2428718rng for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:12:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=P23AT1LGNgUB5pTbj3SKRywgCdExghDWqonxCpBstLxyxK3CxfSVy3v/3hIQPbGg4ZtKNPrCN3EDqYSs0ieivXCndRthDrcjAbBFp4WraBOmuQ9nIkXJgQKMQ73AppMQXoyrQ5XgZVwHP669IdVmbPhIWwt90KthLnF9yGKH5Bw= Received: by 10.38.218.39 with SMTP id q39mr58932rng; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.151.32 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:12:13 -0400 From: Rick Preston To: Steven Friedrich In-Reply-To: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Rick Preston List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:12:14 -0000 You should be able to find everything you need here. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html I set it up in the lab (on 4.7) and it worked great. Good luck, Rick PS. sorry you got it twice Steven, I forgot to click reply all. On 6/1/05, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I'm trying to use scp and I get prompted for a password or passphrase for= each > invocation. >=20 > I figure I need to figure out how to get ssh to connect without prompting= , but > I just can't get it. I've read all the man pages and my head is swirling= . I > went to the OpenSSH web site and got no further. I've been in the busine= ss > for 28 years and can usually figure things out from man pages, but ssh > doesn't seem to be clear enough. I've been unemployed for over a year an= d > can't afford the OReilly book right now (which I'm offering as my defense= for > asking here). >=20 > I've got two free chapters from the OReilly book, but they don't help. >=20 > I've used ssh-keygen and I'm trying to login to the localhost (using it's > hostname). >=20 > Anybody know of a short tutorial that just works? >=20 > -- > i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE > There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary a= nd > then, the others. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >