From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 3:51:56 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 4638E37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:51:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D563343E4A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 03:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 25004 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2002 10:51:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 2 Aug 2002 10:51:51 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE5951CD; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:51:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:51:49 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Andrew J Caines Cc: "Morse, Richard E." , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Question about ssh setup... Message-ID: <20020802105149.GB47310@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew J Caines , "Morse, Richard E." , FreeBSD Questions References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1D61@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> <20020801143402.GE31051@hal9000.halplant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020801143402.GE31051@hal9000.halplant.com> 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 > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:34:02 -0400 > From: Andrew J Caines > To: "Morse, Richard E." > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Question about ssh setup... > > Richard, > > > Hi! I have a problem -- I have a user who wants to be able to > > connect to my server via a script, get a directory listing, then use > > scp to copy some files off. The problem is that ssh (which is the > > only way to connect) doesn't allow you to pass the password to it as > > a parameter > > The canonical solution to this problem is the have the client generate a > key pair with a null passphrase, then use this key pair for the automated > connections. read why this is a bad thing: http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html -- FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 12:51PM up 2 days, 20:27, 7 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.06, 0.07 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message