[nflug] backups on an nfs server

[eric]

This doesn't sound good?  Is it because only I know what the key is and
that is sort of like a password to sshd?

*** IMPORTANT **
do NOT enter a password/passphrase if you want uninterupted login's
*** IMPORTANT **



Darin Perusich wrote:

>from one of my cheat sheets...
>
>--------------------------
>ssh login with NO password
>--------------------------
>
>to access/logon a system using ssh without being prompted for a password
>we need to generate ssh keys as that user, see SSH-KEYGEN(1) for
>detailed info.
>
>log into the systems you wish to access with entering a password.
>generate ssh keys. there are differect types of key's that can be
>generated, if the systems is using ssh protocol 1 or 2 there will be
>different keys. you can also employ different type a keys for the
>differenc protocol versions, des, rsa, etc. see the man page for a
>breakdown.
>
>        system1:> ssh-keygen -t rsa  (ssh protocol version 2)
>
>*** IMPORTANT **
>do NOT enter a password/passphrase if you want uninterupted login's
>*** IMPORTANT **
>
>this will create multiply files, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub for version 2,
>and identity and identity.pub for version 1. on the remote system in the
>users .ssh folder create an authorized_keys2 and copy the contents of
>id_rsa.pub into it for protocol version 2, authorized_keys gets the
>contents of identity.pub for protocol version 1.
>
>test by ssh'ing to the remote system.
>
>
>eric wrote:
>  
>
>>is it proper to automate a ssh login?
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