Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:02:04 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Trevin Chow" <tmchow@sfu.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Passwordless Pine? Message-ID: <002f01c13cda$6599cd40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010913155418.W838-100000@benny.geektank.org>
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Does Pine work properly with SSH _without_ it being passwordless? (ie: the normal SSH way?) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Trevin Chow >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:57 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Passwordless Pine? > > >I have succesfully implement public/private SSH keys to allow passwordless >SSH connectiosn between 2 hosts. I want to also allow for passwordless >IMAP connections via SSH in pine between one of the hosts to the other. I >found this on teh net and thought it woudl be pretty easy: > >http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/1999.12/msg00170.html > >However, whenever I load up pine and try to connect via IMAP, it gives me >a timeout message and then prompts me for my password. > >I have a feeling it has to do with this configuration line in .pinerc: > >----------------- ># Sets the format of the command used to open a UNIX secure ># shell connection. The default is "%s %s -l %s exec /etc/r%sd" ># NOTE: the 4 (four) "%s" entries MUST exist in the provided command ># where the first is for the command's path, the second is for the ># host to connect to, the third is for the user to connect as, and the ># fourth is for the connection method (typically "imap") >ssh-command=%s %s -q -l %s exec /etc/r%sd >----------------- > >I have no idea if that command should be altered or not..any ideas anyone? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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