On 3/2/2014 10:55 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Exactly right. I'm using authorized_keys on the remote host. But I have a > long, complex passphrase on my private RSA key on my workstation. I think > it's a little foolish to not do that, and in addition it's prohibited by > company policy to use keypairs for ssh without passphrases. so how do you do things like cron automated rsync transfers? run nagios monitoring agent scripts? backup scripts? etc etc etc? what, you have an operator who hovers over the keyboard entering passphrases ? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos