Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-22 Thread Jeff Squyres
I took a few of the points from this thread and updated the rsh faq entry (I almost fell out of my chair when I saw "lamboot" and "recon" still listed in that entry -- yoinks!). More updates would be greatly appreciated; could you send a diff against: http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi-www/t

Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-21 Thread Eugene Loh
Mark Hahn wrote: This is with regards to http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=rsh#ssh-keys this page is not wonderful. Hmm, okay, so a non-technical question here: Would you be willing to rewrite it? It has to pass the dummy test, though. I make two offers: 1) I'm willing to put bac

Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Hahn
Okay, yes, setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK is the right thing to do, but this strikes me as clumsy. normally, you should run ssh-agent only on the machine where you sit. it operates until you logout (you can also tell it to discard keys). ssh-agent is normally part if your X startup sequence, so that al

Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-19 Thread Reuti
Hi, Am 20.02.2010 um 00:11 schrieb Eugene Loh: Okay, yes, setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK is the right thing to do, but this strikes me as clumsy. I'm trying to understand how things should be set up so that I don't have to take special action each time I log in. Do I do some .login/.logout magic?

Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-19 Thread Eugene Loh
Okay, yes, setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK is the right thing to do, but this strikes me as clumsy. I'm trying to understand how things should be set up so that I don't have to take special action each time I log in. Do I do some .login/.logout magic? Or, why not just go without a DSA passphrase? The

Re: [OMPI users] password-less ssh

2010-02-19 Thread Kenneth Yoshimoto
After you start up ssh-agent once, check env for SSH_AUTH_SOCK If you start a new session and the old ssh-agent is still running, try setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK. I think there are more refined utilities out there to handle this situation... Kenneth On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Eugene Loh wrote: Date: Fr