On Friday 10 October 2003 15:01, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:16, Bill Tangren wrote: > > Chris Purcell wrote: > > >>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 > > > > I already know how to run ssh without using a password (i.e. create > > a key that has no password, and scp that key to the other machine). > > I thought there was a better way than to create keys that don't > > have passwords. > > There is: > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7762/sam0301c/0301c.htm > > > Very handy. > > Bret Yes, thanks! Keychain is the one I was trying to think of earlier. Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
