From jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com Sat Feb 9 20:42:32 2002 Path: post-office.corp.redhat.com!not-for-mail From: Jeff Garzik Newsgroups: linux-kernel Subject: ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4)) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:54:29 -0500 Organization: MandrakeSoft Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-Path: Delivered-To: linux-kernel2news@post-office.corp.redhat.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-pre8 i686) Herbert Xu wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > This is my problem. You could help if you could tell me what exactly > > are the magic wands to wave such that you can ssh in without typing > > a password. I know about ssh-agent but that doesn't help for this, > > Setup your key with an empty passphrase should do the trick. Ug. no. That is way way insecure. Most modern distros have an ssh-agent running as a parent of all X-spawned processed (including processes spawned by xterms). So, one only needs to run ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa ~/.ssh/identity once, and input your password once. After that, no passwords are needed. For those with multiple peer shells and no X-parented ssh-agent, you will need to run ssh-agent ONCE, like so: ssh-agent > ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out and then for each shell, you need to run: eval `cat ~/tmp/ssh-agent.out` and then run the ssh-add command from above. -- Jeff Garzik | "I went through my candy like hot oatmeal Building 1024 | through an internally-buttered weasel." MandrakeSoft | - goats.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/