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.