On Thursday 30 March 2006 14:43, Les Mikesell wrote: > > If your ssh key has a passphrase, the only reason it works > manually is that you have entered that passphrase > previously and ssh-agent remembers it for you within > that session. The cron job has no connection to that > session and the agent wouldn't provide the passphrase > even if it could. If you want it to run without entering > the passphrase, make keys with an empty passphrase. > I see. Questions, then - As this LAN is behind a hardware firewall, it's probably reasonably safe, but what risk is there? I presume that I will have to remove the keys presently installed? Anne
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