[CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Mon Jul 20 19:00:58 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:39 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for
> > example in combination with rsync to do backups).
>
> One thing that's frequently missed is that the client SSH
> configuration might require that the server's fingerprint appear in
> the local known_hosts file. This may mean that you must perform at
> least one interactive ssh login to confirm the identity of the
> destination, before scripted ssh will work.
I thought ssh-agent took care of that?
> <snip sig stuff>
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Bill
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