ssh (and maybe rsync) question...

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

Hello.

  I've been having some problems here with ssh.

  I want to copy files from my home dial-up box to a server (in which
  I'm only a regular user), but don't want to send the password as
  clear text (otherwise I'd just use sitecopy).

  I've tried rsync + ssh, but then I need to interact with ssh (and
  I'd like to put this in my crontab).

  The ssh manpage says I may generate a keey pair with ssh-keygen, and
  then put my public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the remote host,
  so I'd login without having to interact.

  I ran ssh-keygen, then copied ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the remote
  side, and changed its name to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (since there
  wasn't such a file before).

  But this doesn't work either, since ssh asks for my new passphrase
  anyway (the one from the new key pair).

  Since I'd like to put this in my crontab, and the computer may
  reboot in the meantime, I'd guess that ssh-agent wouldn't help
  either.

  Are there alternatives in some other debian packages?

  Or, did I miss something?


Thanks,
J.

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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
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