[ale] SSH and passwords

[jsheets at yahoo.com (Jerald Sheets)]

You can build keys and exchange the keys between the two hosts.  These
keys will allow you to perform functions between the two hosts without
having to enter a password.  

After that, you can run various commands between the two including
copies and file manipulations, rsync (using the -e ssh flag) and others
without ever having to reveal a password.

--J


On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:31 -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> If I know the proper password for logging in via ssh, is there anyway to 
> "programmatically provide" (like from a script) that to the ssh client? 
> Please don't lecture me about security and keys.  I understand it well 
> enough. 
> 
>  I'm looking at implementing a tool to help set up keys between a set of 
> machines with out them having to retype passwords too many times, so the 
> passwords would not be stored.  As near as I can tell, it takes two "ssh 
> invocations" to provide a key to a remote system, and a third to test it.  
> Couple that, with the dozens of systems with the same passwords, and it would 
> be quite helpful.
> 
> Near as I can tell, you can redirect stdin, and I can see no way to pass it as 
> an argument or such.
> 
> Thanks.
> David
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