Re: ssh (and maybe rsync) question...

[Chris Baker <baker@treyarch.com>]

Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> writes:

[...]

>   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).

Usually, you'd use ssh-agent to remember your passphrase, but I'm not
sure if it will work with a cron job.  Otherwise, you can't use a
passphrase; just leave it empty when you generate the keys.

hth,

cbb