Re: ssh

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com> writes:

> ssh target_machine_name date
>
> gives the date without asking a password. The mere sending id_rsa.pub
> to create the authorized_keys file only works (without asking the
> password) for command:
>
> ssh target_machine_name

In the case of the first command, are you running it interactively or
non-interactively from, say, cron or a batch job system?

If the latter is the case, you either must use passphrase-less SSH
keys (insecure) or load an ssh-agent once interactively and cause all
subsequent, non-interactive access to find and use that loaded agent.
The keychain package might help here.

OTOH, if you are indeed running the remote "date" command
interactively then I have no clue....

Luck,
-Brett.