this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, now...
doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your private keys to the remote box and then just slap it into your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and poof, no more passwords! so now you can run ssh-driven scripts without having to worry about the username/password interruption. it's ip-based, isn't it? workstation workstation workstation 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.201 key xyzpdq key 1234567 key x0x0x0x0 | | | +---------------+----------------+ | 192.168.1.5 firewall 208.33.90.85 | {web} | 11.22.33.44 remote box but the remote just sees all the 192.168.1.* boxes as 208.33.90.85, right? where's the doc on getting ALL the 192.168.1.* boxes to ssh password-free to the remote machine? (or, when it challenges, the challenge only reaches the firewall, something like that. hmm?) so far, my experience has been that i can ssh password-free only from the 'on-the-public-link' firewall. -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #65 from der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Wondering about which KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE UNDERSTOOD BY BASH? Enter this at your bash shell prompt: bind -p | less and see how much of that you can interpret :). For more info about all of this stuff, do "man bash" then search for "emacs" and "readline" (to search a manpage, press / and then the pattern to look for). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]