[CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey all, I have ssh-askpass installed on Centos 5.7 and I'm trying to find a way to log into the host and not have it ask me to enter in my long / complex passphrase every time I ssh into another host. I've googled for some scripts that you can add to your bash configuration so that you won't

Re: [CentOS] cachefs

2014-03-02 Thread Rita
thanks steve. seems like we are in the same boat. I was wondering if there was an alternative to cachefs like http://ccache.samba.org/ On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Steven Tardy sjt5a...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 02.03.2014 14:57, schrieb Tim Dunphy: Hey all, I have ssh-askpass installed on Centos 5.7 and I'm trying to find a way to log into the host and not have it ask me to enter in my long / complex passphrase every time I ssh into another host. I've googled for some scripts that you can

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 02.03.2014 14:57, schrieb Tim Dunphy: Hey all, I have ssh-askpass installed on Centos 5.7 and I'm trying to find a way to log into the host and not have it ask me to enter in my long / complex passphrase every

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 02.03.2014 19:16, schrieb Joseph Spenner: Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? Because that is discouraged due to security. Alexander ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] backing up pending at commands

2014-03-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 18:47:03 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: I can easily get a copy of my pending cron jobs so I can keep a backup. crontab -l mycron.txt is part of my backup script, and that does the job nicely. Is there a way that I can get a copy of pending at jobs for this purpose? This

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread SilverTip257
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 02.03.2014 19:16, schrieb Joseph Spenner: Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? Because that is discouraged due to security. +1 security, security, security -- password-less SSH keys aren't

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? Because that is discouraged due to security. Exactly right. I'm using authorized_keys on the remote host. But I have a long, complex passphrase on my private RSA key on my workstation. I think it's a little foolish to not do that,

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
By what you have said, it doesn't sound like you're caching things in the keyring. For a day at work, I only ever have to enter my passphrase once (unless I remotely connect to my desktop from another desktop to connect to a server). Bingo! That's what I'm after. I too am using ssh-agent

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/2/2014 10:55 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Exactly right. I'm using authorized_keys on the remote host. But I have a long, complex passphrase on my private RSA key on my workstation. I think it's a little foolish to not do that, and in addition it's prohibited by company policy to use keypairs

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
so how do you do things like cron automated rsync transfers? run nagios monitoring agent scripts? backup scripts? etc etc etc? Ok. Now you're making fun. But to answer your questions, we don't rsync in this environment, the way we should. The whole environment is entirely under-scripted

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
On Mar 2, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 02.03.2014 19:16, schrieb Joseph Spenner: Why not just use authorized_keys with an empty pass phrase? Because that is discouraged due to

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/2/2014 11:15 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: But for backups I setup bacula to run over TLS. and what does that use for credentials? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread Tim Dunphy
But having a script which automatically connects without the 'big ugly password' isn't a security risk? I don't follow. Well, ssh-askpass stores your password in a hash and has some security features built into it. It's not really a simple script. It's job is to enter your pass phrase for

[CentOS] .bash_profile vs .bashrc [was: ssh-askpass in bash script]

2014-03-02 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-03-02, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: To my bashrc file. Also what's the difference between storing something like this in your bash_profile vs bashrc? The difference between storing anything in .bash_profile versus .bashrc is that .bash_profile is executed only for interactive

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-03-02 Thread Ted Miller
On 02/26/2014 03:01 PM, Kenny Noe wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie so here's my question. I'm trying to install CentOS 6.5 on a HP Proliant 350e server. This server has 4x 1TB hard drives. I'd like to enable the hardware RAID 5 and stripe all 4 disk into one 3TB logical volume. Then install

Re: [CentOS] VMware-tools has 4 options only for resolution!

2014-03-02 Thread Ted Miller
On 02/17/2014 02:12 AM, Yawei Guo wrote: Hi Guys, It is surprised that VMware-tools gives 4 options only for resolutin after I install VMware-tools for CentOS release 5.10 (Final), a guest OS running with VMware player 6.0.1 build-1379776. The kernal is 2.6.18-371.4.1.el5 x86_64 x86_64. The

Re: [CentOS] ssh-askpass in bash script

2014-03-02 Thread SilverTip257
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: By what you have said, it doesn't sound like you're caching things in the keyring. For a day at work, I only ever have to enter my passphrase once (unless I remotely connect to my desktop from another desktop to