[oclug]rsync and ssh?

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at storm.ca
Sun Oct 20 17:23:18 EDT 2002


    Actually, you should never use passwordless keys for interactive sessions.
You're better off using a key with a password on it, and then using ssh-agent
to supply the password. 

    Mike

On 20/10/02 Valentine did speaketh:

> you will need access to the remote machine ....
> generate the key file
> ssh-keygen -N '' -t rsa
> after that put your public key (id_rsa.pub) into the .ssh directory on the remote machine
> and voila ....
> 
> val
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