RE: help on a script

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:38, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > > Make the script executable and make sure the user under whose uid it
> > > will run is able to connect with ssh without supplying a password.
> > > 
> > 
> > How exactly would I do that? Make a user that doesn't have to supply a
> > password? Like the apache default www-data? How would I set up the user?
> 
> 
> On the target machine
> 
>    mkdir ~/.ssh
> 
> On the sending machine:
> 
>    ssh-keygen -t dsa
> (leave the passphrase empty)
> 
>    scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:.ssh

Sorry, that should be: 
   scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub [other machine]:/tmp
   ssh [other machine]
      cat /tmp/id_dsa.pub >>.ssh/authorized_keys

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