Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:03:55 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Jack Xiao <jack_xiao99@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, "Mark S." <mark@furball.net>, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: ssh questions Message-ID: <20020612000355.11939.qmail@web10107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <OE39kl4AU1O6YalkXh3000015ab@hotmail.com>
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Look into a language called "Expect". And don't be intimidated by the fact that it's a new language to learn. Most likely you can run a script in cron that will basically say: spawn ssh send [ssh command] expect [normal response] send [sftp command] Obviously it's a little more complex than that, but the beauty of Expect is that it's only a *little* more complex than that. It's not the most secure thing to do though. But you can mitigate that risk through permissions and maybe not giving the user a shell (not sure if that breaks sftp...). The book for this is called "Exploring Expect" but you could get away with a quick online tutorial like the one here: http://www.raycosoft.com/rayco/support/expect_tutor.html Hope that helps. Keith --- Jack Xiao <jack_xiao99@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I got ssh work without typing the username and > password. But need further > step, use sftp without typing username and passowrd. > I have thought if ssh > works fine, there's no problem with sftp. But I was > still asked for the > password when using sftp. Any ideas will be > appreciated. > > In addition, is it less secure for the ssh if there > is no passphrase? > > Thanks. > > Jack > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of > the message ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Only failures don't include failing in their plans ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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