Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:31:53 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: jules gilbert <jg@medg.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password-less secure interchange Message-ID: <20020714203152.GL322@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020714183354.GC63064@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3D31B0E8.69A9EBA8@medg.lcs.mit.edu> <20020714183354.GC63064@dan.emsphone.com>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:33:54 -0500
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> To: jules gilbert <jg@medg.lcs.mit.edu>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: password-less secure interchange
>
> 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.
"ssh-agent provides the same benefits in a much more secure manner"
http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html
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