[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> if ps aux | grep -q '$USER.*ssh-agent'; then

note that i put $USER in to make the script generic for posting.
therefore the line should really be:

> if ps aux | grep -q "$USER.*ssh-agent"; then

>     ssh-agent > $HOME/.ssh/env
>     . $HOME/.ssh/env
>     echo "export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID" > $HOME/.ssh/env
>     echo "export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >> $HOME/.ssh/env
>     ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> else
>     . $HOME/.ssh/env
> fi
> 
>  So, it seems that I do the ssh-add...but it doesn't seem to make that
> much difference...

what comes out of:

    env | grep SSH

did you put the ssh public keys in ~/.ssh/authorised_keys on the server?

kevin

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