On 4/6/2010 2:34 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> On 4/6/2010 2:04 PM, m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com