I have issue with both the idea and implementation of password-less access. I don't understand how it works well, but it seems a lot like keeping your password in an unencrypted file--if someone got access to my computer for a short time (e.g. via some uncaught spyware) and copied the public key, they could access my files anytime until I realized it and changed the key. However, if this is the way to do things, I'll take that risk. Is there a more user-friendly (Windows) guide to this? I've been trying to set up the keys both manually on the server and with the built-in function on SSH Secure Shell Client 3.2.9. When I create the keys manually on the server, change permissions, then transfer them to my computer, I get the error "failed to read your public key...". On the other hand, when I use the client to create the keys and upload to the server, it says everything is working properly, but then fails to actually authorize to connect and still prompts for password. I've tried variations (using .ssh or .ssh2, subdirectories) to no avail. The server OS is SunOS 5.8.
Thanks, Evan On Feb 20, 7:16 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Evan Fuller <fuller.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to have SAGE use the copy of mathematica on my > > department server, which requires SSH with password. Looking at > > previous posts, it sounds like there is no way to do this without > > setting up somethingpassword-less. I'm hoping there has been an > > improvement on this in the 18 months since those posts. Can anyone > > help me out? I'm using the latest version binary (3.2.3) on Windows, > > in case that's relevant. > > Why don't you setuppassword-lessssh access to your department server? > Is there some reason you don't, except that perhaps you don't know how? > It's very easy as long as your department is running a Linux server. What is > the exact OS they are using? > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
