On Monday 31 January 2011 16:21:17 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > The Keychain man page. It specifically says that it must be in the > > script if the script is to be run by a cron job. At least, that's what > > I understand it to say. > > Well, to be able to ssh to a remote machine without any passwords or > anything like keychain: > > 1. make sure you have an SSH key, normally ~/.ssh/id_rsa > 2. make sure there is no passphrase set on that key; if there is, remove it > (change it to the empty string) using "ssh-keygen -p" > 3. make sure your public key (normally ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is listed in > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote server, if not, add it there > 4. try ssh to the remote server, it should not ask you for any password or > passphrase > Everything is set up exactly as you say, except that there is a passphrase. Surely you lose security if you remove it? I don't suppose the risk on my LAN is too great, but I do try to work as securely as I can. Are you thinking that I'm being over-cautious? Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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