Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:12:22 +0200 From: "R.I.Pienaar" <rip@pinetec.co.za> To: mark <mark@itsunix.uwc.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000118131222.I7945@pinetec.co.za> In-Reply-To: <0001181244430A.25159@itsunix.uwc.ac.za> References: <0001181244430A.25159@itsunix.uwc.ac.za>
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> The problem comes in when I scp it asks for a password. > I am not sure how to use the cron to send a password ( not safe either if > someone gets to see the cron file ) ssh allows you to use certificates to gain access to servers, you dont need passwords. on the backup server run ssh-keygen as the user that will do the scp's, look in that user home directory for a file called .ssh/identity.pub place this file in the remote machine - under the user dir you are scp into - ~/.ssh/authorized_key make sure the ~/.ssh and the file authorized_keys are mode 700 for the directory and 600 for the file. if all goes well, you should be able to ssh/scp from the backup server to your other machines without being asked a password. see the man pages. -- R.I. Pienaar rip@pinetec.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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