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From: "John Straiton" <jks@clickcom.com>
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Cc: "'Daniel Barron'" <nettle@jadeb.com>
Subject: RE: ssh keys and rsync
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:45:33 -0400
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I don't know if this will help too much, but it's my walkthrough for
setting up automatic, password-required-less rsync'ing between two
freebsd machines:

http://my.lostinfo.com/files_other/rsync/

John Straiton
jks@clickcom.com
Clickcom, Inc
704-365-9970x101 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of 
> Daniel Barron
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: ssh keys and rsync
> 
> 
> In message <m2vg8cabrf.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com>
>           Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Barron <nettle@jadeb.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Then that was it I could just 'ssh someserver' and be logged in.
> > > Someserver is a SunOS 4.8.
> > > 
> > > I tried the same on the FreeBSD box and it always asked me for a 
> > > password. I also tried without the -t dsa.
> > 
> > Is it asking you for a password or a passphrase? There are 
> > differences.
> 
> Yes I know.  Password.
> 
> > Have you added the key that belongs to the user you wish to 
> ssh as to 
> > the authorized_keys (or for ssh V2 authorized_keys2) file 
> of the user 
> > that you wish to ssh to ?
> 
> Yes, tried both.
> 
> > 
> > EG. wayne on box a wants to ssh to web on box b. wayne on box a 
> > generates a ssh key. The sysadmin then adds the contents of wayne's 
> > public key to /export/home/web/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on box b.
> 
> I'm just starting with ~/.ssh for now and will move on to 
> /path/to/web once I can simply ssh without password or passphrase.
> 
> > 
> > > BTW, I know blank passphrases are bad, but how would I connect 
> > > without any user intervention?
> > 
> > You can use ssh-agent where you enter the passphrase once 
> at startup, 
> > and then ssh uses the running agent to authenticate against 
> requests.
> 
> I saw info on that but had no sucess.  However it seems to be 
> for interactive use rather than crontab-ed.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Barron
> (Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all)
> 
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