On 7/13/2011 3:19 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/13/11 12:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Would it work if you tried ssh -A -X user@hostname?
I've not used that option, and the man page isn't explaining it to me such that I quite understand what it does.
I use it all the time. -A forwards authentication, if you've got an agent running. Most likely, you've got ssh-agent as a daemon (check via ps). If you've got a key in ~/.ssh/, like id_dsa& id_dsa.pub, and have used ssh-add to add it, and the .pub is in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the targets, you can go from one machine to another to another, without have to come back.
How does that get you to root on the remote for the install step? Do you have to have your key in root's authorized_keys?