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Date:      8 Jan 2000 00:46:08 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump over ssh
Message-ID:  <855ts0$25s2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <854v9q$1gf9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <4.2.2.20000107155733.01d32b40@localhost>

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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:

> Can you do any or all of these things from a script?

Of course.
Note that the idea (and the main part of the implementation) for
"dump -P" is reused from rdist.

> As I recall, ssh requires "live" entry of the password from the
> keyboard (though I haven't tried it lately).

ssh supports several types of authentication. For scripts, you'd
probably set up either rhosts-RSA authentication (my personal
favorite) or RSA authentication with a keypair without passphrase.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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