Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:18:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> To: keith@apcs.com.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scp ssh ? Message-ID: <14064.21579.793390.238423@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990318082240.keith@apcs.com.au> References: <XFMail.990318082240.keith@apcs.com.au>
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Keith> I have a local network and I wish to transfer secure data every Keith> hour using cron. Keith> Problem is 'scp' required a password to contine. Keith> I'm trying to use: Keith> /usr/local/bin/scp -C /home/fred/file root@fred.localhost:/home/fred/file Keith> I have a file in /root/.shosts: hostname.localhost root They way we do this is with RSA keys that don't have a passphrase. But I'd be *very* wary of allowing root access with out any passwords or passprhases. If possible, I'd suggest creating a seperate user just for file transfers like this, use ssh-keygen to give that user a key, and on the host fred put the public part of the key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Check out the man pages on ssh and ssh-keygen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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