On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 08:56 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
> I want to use ssh in a script to do a night backup of some machines via
> cron job. It looks something like:
>
> ssh -l root <server> 'dump 0cf - /filesystem' | gzip > filesystem.gz
>
> Anyone know how I can pass the root password into ssh on the command
> line?
probably not a great idea to put your root password as clear text on the
machine .. but you could setup SSH keys between the two machines .. even
with a blank passphrase if you want .. probably the best way to do it
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx }
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>
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