Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:57:56 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, Rick Preston <rickjpreston@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs... Message-ID: <200506011757.57097.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> In-Reply-To: <20050601203839.GH21127@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <429E0B57.2070701@scls.lib.wi.us> <20050601203839.GH21127@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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Thanks to Nathan Kinkade, Roland Smith, Greg Barniskis, and Rick Preston for the replies. Each gave me quite a bit of info and I'm still digesting it. I've been successful using ssh-agent, though I have to enter the passphrase each time I run my script. That's really only an annoyance now because I'm developing the script and have to enter it often. That goes away when the script is stable. I've been using ssh to login to my local machines for quite some time and never realized I didn't have it set up quite right, because it was asking for a passwd, which means all other means failed. What I did notice though, is that I can't login as root using ssh. I haven't found this mentioned in the man pages. Anybody know where it's documented, whether it can be changed, and would that be a colossal mistake? I mean, hey, it's a secure shell, why can't I login as root? The reason I want to use root is because I'm trying to scp /etc/master.passwd from each of my four machines so I can write them to a CD for backup.
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