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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:33:54 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        jules gilbert <jg@medg.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: password-less secure interchange
Message-ID:  <20020714183354.GC63064@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D31B0E8.69A9EBA8@medg.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <3D31B0E8.69A9EBA8@medg.lcs.mit.edu>

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In the last episode (Jul 14), jules gilbert said:
> I have two machines.
> 
> In the middle of the night -- when I am unconscious,  I want a FreeBSD
> to be able to scp to another FreeBSD machine and pass a file.

Run ssh-keygen (read the manpage for the options) on machine A, don't
enter a passphrase, then copy the ~/.ssh/identity.pub over to machine
B's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.  Then you can ssh from A to B without any
user interaction.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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