From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 11 14:55:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAF837B40E for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5BLtMDP000217 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:55:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5BLtLRx000214; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:55:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh questions References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Jun 2002 17:55:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44ptyx7a5y.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "jack xiao" writes: > I am ruunig ssh under FreeBSD4.5. It works=A0fine, but I am=A0wondering i= f anybody > has any experience of using ssh without inputing username and password. I= t's > for a cron job on my box... Sure. You use DSA or RSA authentication, and no passphrase.=20=20 See the manual. [You need to be very careful about this kind of configuration, though; if possible, give the ssh identity a userid with no login privileges...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message