From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 18:49:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BC916A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1553243D48 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:49:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from lightning (12-202-24-76.client.insightbb.com[12.202.24.76]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050601184951i9100hi9e8e>; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:49:51 +0000 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:49:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Subject: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:49:52 -0000 I'm trying to use scp and I get prompted for a password or passphrase for each invocation. I figure I need to figure out how to get ssh to connect without prompting, but I just can't get it. I've read all the man pages and my head is swirling. I went to the OpenSSH web site and got no further. I've been in the business for 28 years and can usually figure things out from man pages, but ssh doesn't seem to be clear enough. I've been unemployed for over a year and can't afford the OReilly book right now (which I'm offering as my defense for asking here). I've got two free chapters from the OReilly book, but they don't help. I've used ssh-keygen and I'm trying to login to the localhost (using it's hostname). Anybody know of a short tutorial that just works? -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others.