Re: HELP: setting up fetchmail over ssh withou password asking?

[Ailbhe Leamy <ailbhe@ossifrage.net>]

On (14/11/01 09:47), Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> poll mailserver
>        with proto pop3
>        user 'bboett' there is 'bboett' here:·
>            preconnect "ssh -f -L 1234:mailserver:110 mailserver sleep 20 </dev/null >/dev/null";
> 
> now this works, but it asks me to give a passwd.... with normal ssh i
> can login into the server without passwd (i exchanged the keys...)
> 
> i tryed the --auth ssh switch in the commandline (it doesn't like it at
>     all inside the .fetchmailrc) but i got a connection refused...

>From the ssh manpage:

-i identity_file 

Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or
DSA authentication is read. Default is $HOME/.ssh/identity in the
user's home directory for protocol version 1, or $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa or
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa in the user's home directory for protocol version 2.
Identity files may also be specified on a per-host basis in the
configuration file.  It is possible to have multiple -i options (and
multiple identities specified in configuration files).

HTH

Ailbhe

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