[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:16:08 +0000
"John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com> blurted in message 20020319131608.H9541 at antefacto.com:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:57:34PM +0000, Ronan Waide mentioned:
> > > 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
> 
> > Try adding the keys manually, rather than from a script. Then use
> > ssh-add to see if they've been added.
> 
>  I don't think that's a problem;
> 
> bartender [0]  ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity ~/.ssh/id_dsa
> Identity added: /home/john/.ssh/identity
> (john at bean.internal.antefacto.com)
> Identity added: /home/john/.ssh/id_dsa (/home/john/.ssh/id_dsa)
> 
>  I'm still wondering what's supposed to happen. Does it save the
> passphrase in ~/.ssh somewhere, so that I can see what's happening ?
> 
I'm assuming you've got past the whole authorized_keys part, and that's
all working okay?

if so, when you run
ssh-add ~/.ssh/identity

(try it with just one, I seem to remember some fun I had with multiple at the same time before)

you get prompted for a password, and once you've done that, you
should be able to ssh to other places (try ssh -v :))

L.
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