Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:05:55 -0500 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh and scp Message-ID: <19980317130555.37679@mph124.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <350E6BC8.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za>; from Jacques Hugo on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 02:25:44PM %2B0200 References: <350E6BC8.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za>
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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.
Append the contents of that file to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server.
If that file doesn't exist, create it with the contents of client's
identity.pub.
You can now ssh from client to server without supplying a password.
--
Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally.
http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349.
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