[ale] SSH and passwords

[David Corbin]

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:59 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Can someone give me the command to build a key on a client so I can
> transfer it to the remote and place it in the authorized keys folder of
> the server?
>
> Thanks

I do this:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
scp ~/id_dsa.pub remoteHost:tmp.pub
ssh remoteHost 'cat tmp.pub >>.ssh/authorized_keys'

(I think)

David
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:45, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > You can build keys and exchange the keys between the two hosts.  These
> > keys will allow you to perform functions between the two hosts without
> > having to enter a password.
> >
> > After that, you can run various commands between the two including
> > copies and file manipulations, rsync (using the -e ssh flag) and others
> > without ever having to reveal a password.
> >
> > --J
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:31 -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> > > If I know the proper password for logging in via ssh, is there anyway
> > > to "programmatically provide" (like from a script) that to the ssh
> > > client? Please don't lecture me about security and keys.  I understand
> > > it well enough.
> > >
> > >  I'm looking at implementing a tool to help set up keys between a set
> > > of machines with out them having to retype passwords too many times, so
> > > the passwords would not be stored.  As near as I can tell, it takes two
> > > "ssh invocations" to provide a key to a remote system, and a third to
> > > test it. Couple that, with the dozens of systems with the same
> > > passwords, and it would be quite helpful.
> > >
> > > Near as I can tell, you can redirect stdin, and I can see no way to
> > > pass it as an argument or such.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > David
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