Yes, the problem I have, however, is that ssh-add seems to require
you to type in your password in at the console, rather than accepting
a command line argument, as I wish it would. I may be missing something
obvious, though, so if you know otherwise, let me know!
-Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Yu, Jerry ">z.yu@Ptek.com>
To: Jeff Dilcher ">dilcher@cueva.com>
Cc: ">ale@ale.org ">ale@ale.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] ssh without a manually supplied password
>you can generate a new pair of keys with a empty (null) passphrase.
>security risk blah blah. wonder if you can change the existing keys to do
>that.
>
>you can set up ssh-agent (with ssh-add). ssh-add actually take passphrase
>from command line arguments. So, you can do a little init script to
>wrap this up and tie it to your system run level. With the permission
>carefully set, it could be somewhat safer than the null-passphrase
>approach.
>
>Jerry Yu
>Systems Engineer https://punch/~zyu
>Premiere Technologies ">zyu@tc.net
>404-262-8544 (O)
>
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jeff Dilcher wrote:
>
>#Hello,
>#
>#I am thinking of setting up Fetchmail to reqularly check an ISP
>#for mail within an SSH session.
>#
>#I would like to have happen without me having to type in a
>#password at any point.
>#
>#I think I read that you can have SSH only prompt for a password
>#on the first connection only using an authorization agent. I would
>#like to never have to input a password manually.
>#
>#Is this possible?
>#
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