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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:04:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
cc: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ssh and scp
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 02:25:44PM +0200, Jacques Hugo wrote:
> 
> > Can scp be automated that it can read the passwd from
> > a user on a trusted host?  I would like to scp -r 
> > directories during the night from one box to another.
> 
> If you want a user on one machine (which I'll call "client") to
> be able to ssh (or scp) into another box ("server") without supplying
> a password, take these steps:
> 
> Make sure that ~/.ssh/identity.pub exists on client.  It is normally
> there, as long as you have used ssh before.
> 

If it doesn't exist, run `ssh-keygen' and create a new key with an empty
passphrase.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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