> I tried this on both the backup machine, and the machine to be backed > up. I still get prompted for a password. Could you (or someone else) > provide an example of how you would use this in a script that uses rsync > and ssh to backup files from one machine to another? I read the man > pages for ssh-agent and ssh-add, and it was not clear to me. The eval > function provides ssh-agent's pid, but I'm not sure how to use it in > this case. > > TIA, > Bill Try this... Connnect FROM comp = Tiger Connect TO comp = Lion >From Tiger... ssh-keygen -t dsa (when asked for location and password, just press enter) scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub root@lion:/root >From Lion... cat /root/id_dsa.pub ssh-dss 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 root@tiger Open id_dsa.pub with vi and prepend from=tiger cat /root/id_dsa.pub from="192.168.1.81" ssh-dss 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 root@tiger cat id_dsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys >From Tiger... Now you should be able to run ssh commands with entering a password... ssh root@lion echo "success" success Chris Purcell, RHCE -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
