how does this work when running something from cron? (I think that's the
type of thing Larry is trying to do)
David Lang
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:54:29 -0500
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make
> cardbus compile in -pre4))
>
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This is my problem. You could help if you could tell me what exactly
> > > are the magic wands to wave such that you can ssh in without typing
> > > a password. I know about ssh-agent but that doesn't help for this,
> >
> > Setup your key with an empty passphrase should do the trick.
>
> Ug. no. That is way way insecure.
>
> Most modern distros have an ssh-agent running as a parent of all
> X-spawned processed (including processes spawned by xterms). So, one
> only needs to run
> ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/identity
> once, and input your password once. After that, no passwords are
> needed.
>
>
> For those with multiple peer shells and no X-parented ssh-agent, you
> will need to run ssh-agent ONCE, like so:
>
> ssh-agent > ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out
>
> and then for each shell, you need to run:
>
> eval `cat ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out`
>
> and then run the ssh-add command from above.
>
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