Re: Backups via SCP or RSYNC

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Am Mo, den 21.02.2005 schrieb Timothy Murphy um 15:29:

> I'm no security guru,
> and don't really understood what you are trying to do,
> but if you copy your $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the other machine,
> and add it to $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys there
> you should not be asked for a password.

> Timothy Murphy 

No, using public key auth with SSH instead of password authentication
does not (necessarily) omit interaction by entering a pass[word,phrase].
Passphraseless public keys are no good idea from point of security.

Alexander


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