From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 7:32:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE80E37B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 07:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15dumd-0007vn-00; Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:33:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:33:03 +0100 From: Ceri To: freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: SSH and connection automation Message-ID: <20010903153303.C27900@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <9n03nl$obv$1@wolf.isltd.insignia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9n03nl$obv$1@wolf.isltd.insignia.com>; from freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:22:45PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:22:45PM +0100, freebsd-questions-local@insignia.com said: > I was today trying to be able to execute commands on a remote machine > without supplying a passwd using ssh. Sadly, even just login still prompts > me for a passwd. > > Here is what I did: > > 1. Generate the key pair ($HOME/.ssh/identity.pub and identity) > 2. Exported identity.pub to 3 hosts which I usually connect to > I copied (not renamed) the identity.pub to authorized_keys You need to read up on ssh-agent(1). Ceri -- # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message