From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:54:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:54:45 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17925 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:54:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3C65C4C5.C287A3@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:54:29 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert Xu CC: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ssh primer (was Re: pull vs push (was Re: [bk patch] Make cardbus compile in -pre4)) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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