Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2005-06-02 10:38, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The original poster wanted to do automated backups via scp. This kind > > of application *requires* empty passphrases > > Nope. scp works fine with a pass-phrase too, if one uses ssh-agent > properly, regardless of the remote user being root or not. You're recommending leaving an ssh-agent instance running unattended instead of having a passphrase-less key? That just means you have to protect the agent's socket as carefully as you would have to protect the unencrypted key file. I guess what I should have said was that such an application requires an unencrypted key sitting around. You are right: there *are* ways to give access to the key other than empty passphrases. The only real disadvantage of the agent approach is that the key becomes inaccessible when the system reboots. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
