Hi! First of all, thank you all for the answers, I appreciate it! :)
About security and string plaintext passwords on the computer - yes, that's a security risk, but not a big one in my case (single user on the computer). Besides, if someone breaks into my computer he can access those servers if he knows the password or not - he just needs to steal my private keys, right? Anyway, I guess I'll either copy the files to the server or keep on typing the passwords (or maybe write them down on the back of the keyboard, heh, heh... ;). Thank you again! Kind regards, Anze On Thursday 11 of September 2008, Frank Dietrich wrote: > Hi, > > Anze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Is there a way to automate this login _without_ doing anything > >> > on the server side? It should be doable, but every site I > >> > googled talks about keygen and putting the part of the key on > >> > the server... > >> > >> Have you tried to create an ssh-key and login with this key > >> instead of the password? "man ssh" says how to do this. > > > >Could you please be a bit more specific? I do not have much > >experience in ssh and "man ssh" doesn't really help - it talks about > >agents, keys,... it's all greek to me. :) > > It's not that complicated: > > ssh-keygen -b 2048 -f name_for_the_file > > -b 2048 -- genreate a secret key with a length of 2048 bit > -f ... -- generate the file and file.pub where your private and > public keys will be saved > > >Let me point out that I'm looking for a solution that would _not_ > >require to put anything on the server (keys and similar). Is this > >even possible? > > May be that's not possible. If you don't use keys there is no way to > store the password somewhere. For security reasons. If it would be > possible you had to store it in plain text. Which would not be a good > idea. > > And if you decide to use keys, you have to store your public key below > your ~/.ssh directory on the server. Why you want to avoid this? > > regards > Frank _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
