[oclug]rsync and ssh?

[Scott Moynes]

* Michael P. Soulier (msoulier at storm.ca) wrote:
> On 21/10/02 Scott Moynes did speaketh:
> 
> > There's a script called keychain
> > <http://www.gentoo.org/projects/keychain.html> that can be used in
> > cron scripts to access the ssh agent from cron scripts. There's also
> > links to a few articles the author wrote that describes ssh public-key
> > authentication pretty well.
> 
>     Even better, learn expect. ;-)
> 
>     Mike
> 

Keychain doesn't force you to put your password in plaintext in your
scripts, which is only slightly better than having a passwordless
key. I use it to unlock my keys when I login, and let ssh tunnel for
IMAP connects to that ssh agent, so I don't have a plaintext password
anywhere on my hard drive. Why I am so concerned about someone using
my account to read my OCLUG email and spam, I'm not sure. :)

-- 
Scott Moynes http://www.icculus.org/openbox/
"Computer science is as much about computers
as astronomy is about telescopes." -- Dijkstra
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