On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, chaoson wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:54:57 +0800 (CST) > Hi, > > I'm running openssh-4.3p2. > > I need to ability to run a command on trusted machine remotely. So far > as I know, we can use two ways to login to remote machine: > > 1) Provide user name and password > 2) Public key authentication > > My question is that can we disable the SSH authentication so that we > don't need to either provide user account or the public key? Does anyone > has the idea? Thanks Well, if your machine is SO trusted and so secure that does not require authentication, why do you need to use openssh at all? ;-) Use telnet or rsh then ;-) Why public key authentication does not work for you? -- Serguei A. Mokhov | /~\ The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign Concordia University | X Against HTML Montreal, Quebec, Canada | / \ Email!