On 4/6/2010 2:34 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
On 4/6/2010 2:04 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
<snip> >> And, for the bigger picture, why should it? If I'm logging off, there's >> no reason for it to keep running. Any sessions that required it are >> either established, or shut down. > > That's one of the things it can do. If you don't like it, use some > other option. I assume it can feed cron jobs and the like when you > aren't logged in if you want - but I've always just made keys with no > passphrase when I know the commands will be automated.
No passphrase? Then why use it?
Because it's as safe as the physical security of the machine and the login of the user owning it.
At any rate, that's not going to happen here (or anywhere I've worked): even if I was willing to do that (which I'm not), none of my managers would have allowed it.
So how do they automate things? I want the computers to work for me, not the other way around.