From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 11:33:58 2002 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 318A937B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A86043E58 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6EIXtqR013778; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:33:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:33:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: jules gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password-less secure interchange Message-ID: <20020714183354.GC63064@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3D31B0E8.69A9EBA8@medg.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D31B0E8.69A9EBA8@medg.lcs.mit.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 14), jules gilbert said: > I have two machines. > > In the middle of the night -- when I am unconscious, I want a FreeBSD > to be able to scp to another FreeBSD machine and pass a file. Run ssh-keygen (read the manpage for the options) on machine A, don't enter a passphrase, then copy the ~/.ssh/identity.pub over to machine B's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Then you can ssh from A to B without any user interaction. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message