-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Telford wrote:
>My desire is as root on hostA to run a crontab that >periodically executes a command on hostB without supplying >the root password. Something like "ssh root@hostB command". > >My attempts are unsuccessful. Each scheme ends with hostB >prompts for a password. The man pages for ssh-keygen and ssh, respectively, will explain how to create a key for root and where to place it on the target to get the result you want. Synopsis: # ssh-keygen -t dsa # formerly ssh-keygen -d Accept default save location, no password. Copy the resulting id_dsa.pub to target machine. Then do on the target: # cat id_dsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 Double check that the .ssh directories are readable only by root. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPF36279BpdPKTBGtEQLEkACgmQghhr17VhgJiBNKvgE0x6KKqGgAnjI4 jmZg+0xyrhWqDyOPUW9fJkSt =rULa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
