At 10:58 24/05/2006, you wrote:
I would echo this loudly. Passphraseless keys, or worse still passwordless login should really be avoided. The most elegant solution is to use ssh-agent and ssh-add as managed by the keychain script which is available from Extras (yum install keychain).
I did ssh-keygen with an empty passphrase, specifically so that I could place the public key on a target machine (the one with a DAT backup drive) then set up something like
sudo <ordinary user> scp ~/my/backup/files <ordinary user>@targetmachine:~/my/backup/copy/
as part of a script which is run as a cron job in the middle of the night. Dave Fletcher
