"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In > order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: > > 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when > prompted > > 2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub from the local system to > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system. > > 3) Make sure your ssh daemon on the remote system has, at least, the > following in it's configuration file: > > RSAAuthentication yes
Forgot 4) Run ssh-add at the beginning of your login session. Unfortunately I'm not sure what you can do passwordless if you're talking about running stuff as a cron job. You may have to allow RhostsAuthentication in order for that to work, and that's not a very secure solution. Gary
